On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Mauricio wrote:
Hi,
A small annoyance some users outside
english speaking countries usually
experiment when learning programming
languages is that real numbers use
a '.' instead of ','. Of course, that
is not such a problem except for the
inconsistence between computer
Hi,
A small annoyance some users outside
english speaking countries usually
experiment when learning programming
languages is that real numbers use
a '.' instead of ','. Of course, that
is not such a problem except for the
inconsistence between computer and
free hand notation.
Do you think
Mauricio wrote:
Hi,
A small annoyance some users outside
english speaking countries usually
experiment when learning programming
languages is that real numbers use
a '.' instead of ','. Of course, that
is not such a problem except for the
inconsistence between computer and
free hand
Wouldn't that make it hard to parse lists of floats?
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 09:29 -0300, Mauricio wrote:
Hi,
A small annoyance some users outside
english speaking countries usually
experiment when learning programming
languages is that real numbers use
a '.' instead of ','. Of course, that
On 16 Sep 2008, at 16:29, Mauricio wrote:
I'm happy to
finaly use a language where I can
use words of my language to name
variables, so I wonder if we could
also make that step.
Really?
There is a bunch of languages (like Glagol) that use words of
Russian language as keywords; AFAIK there
Mauricio wrote:
Do you think 'read' (actually,
'readsPrec'?) could be made to also
read the international convention
(ie., read 1,5 would also work
besides read 1.5)? I'm happy to
finaly use a language where I can
use words of my language to name
variables, so I wonder if we could
also make that
Mauricio asked:
Do you think 'read' (actually,
'readsPrec'?) could be made to also
read the international convention
(ie., read 1,5 would also work
besides read 1.5)?
What would you hope the value of
read (1,2,3)::(Float,Float)
would be?
--
Dan
Mauricio wrote:
Do you think 'read' (actually,
'readsPrec'?) could be made to also
read the international convention
No. read and show are meant to be KISS, suitable for toy programs and
casual debugging messages. Real applications should use or invent a
sophisticated, general library.
Mauricio wrote:
Do you think 'read' (actually,
'readsPrec'?) could be made to also
read the international convention
(ie., read 1,5 would also work
besides read 1.5)? I'm happy to
finaly use a language where I can
use words of my language to name
variables, so I wonder if we could
also make that
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Mauricio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you think 'read' (actually,
'readsPrec'?) could be made to also
read the international convention
(ie., read 1,5 would also work
besides read 1.5)?
No, as read is really intended to be a language-level tool, not
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