In comp.lang.mumps message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
George Timson wrote:
> ... [The USA Veteran Affairs Department] has gotten word from 
> InterSystems that the lowercase-e 'enhancement' will be backed
> out of future Cache' releases.

Basically this means that X=+$P($E(X,1,15),"E") will never result in an error.
This is in accordance with what was standard MUMPS.

I believe that there is no harm in lowercase "e" in numlits.
So if ISC has done this correctly, the COS constant 123e4 should 
continue to be legal.  
But +"123e4" will evaluate to 123 instead of 1230000.

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