We have merged the parsers into one, because we had 3 parsers that didn’t have any dedicated use-cases, juts were developed historical as at some point someone needed a bit more functionality, and then different parsers were used randomly on the system. As for the expression - yes we have to decide about it. If it’s only about being able to use exponent in float literals, one can use: “Number readFrom: '2.5850009999999998e04’”. If it’s about being similar to the other languages, we can also decide does it make sense to have a +2 literal.
Uko > On 06 Feb 2015, at 09:04, Marcus Denker <marcus.den...@inria.fr> wrote: > > >> On 06 Feb 2015, at 09:02, stepharo <steph...@free.fr> wrote: >> >> >> Le 5/2/15 10:40, Sven Van Caekenberghe a écrit : >>>> On 05 Feb 2015, at 10:36, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I personally would prefer to be able to use exponents. No sure what the >>>> big picture is. >>>> cheers -ben >>> Of course exponents are still supported ;-) >>> >>> The discussion is about the + sign for positive exponents. I am not sure, >>> but I think that traditional Smalltalk did not support this, but it was >>> added to support common practice in other languages. Now it is apparently >>> gone again, probably not on purpose. >> >> I do not know I think that marcus removed it to avoid to have two parsers in >> the image. >> > > Maybe this was a mistake… > > Marcus
