> On 06 Feb 2015, at 11:45, Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymc...@me.com> wrote: > > 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.
Yes, it was quite hard to understand what was going on. And it is strange to have 3 different parsers for numbers... > 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. > If it makes no problems with backward compatibility, why not have both? > 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 > >
