On Monday, 5 January 2015 20:13:51 UTC, Jeff Bezanson wrote: > > Hex float literals are a different story. It's an understatement to > say they are VERY rarely used, and that most programmers don't need > them and have never heard of them. They also don't currently work > under MSVC (issue #6349). We have not had them very long. I say we > remove them. They can be replaced with a custom string literal. >
While I can see that they do make things complicated, I for one would be sad to see them go: they still are the easiest way to ensure you have the exact constant you want, and don't get bitten by some obscure rounding error. I don't really lisp enough to understand the parser, but would it be possible to make the parsing of "p" conditional on the prefix?
