Timur Safin wrote: > This does not exactly match that they said. > It would rather be $zu function restoring the > old behavior if it is needed. So long as it can be configured in the cpf for the whole system, the effect is the same. Indeed, that is the best way to handle it now.
> <CDS587> ... > Since Release 4.1, Cache' has allowed the exponent designator for a number > in scientific notation to be either upper or lower case, 'E' or 'e'. > However, this is not compatible with some programs written in other dialects > of the M language, which recognize only upper case 'E'. That is a mild way to put it. It is not compatible with some programs written in prior versions of Cache' or any standard M implementation anywhere ever. "Some programs" are those which could have "e" in the data but assume that "e" does not have a numeric interpretation. I can't believe that no one from ISC was around when the MDC debated this topic at length. The $zu() option should have been around from the first version that the change was made.
