Re: Integral literals with Exp?

[matovitch via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 13 September 2014 at 07:23:39 UTC, bearophile wrote:

Is it a good idea to accept code like this, to shorten some constants?

void main() {
    int x = 1e6;
}

Bye,
bearophile

Well, I guess it wouldn't help the lexer. To be consistent :

int x = 1.73e2;

should be allowed but not

int y = 1.73e1;

Not a good idea IMHO.