Bill Marriott wrote:
As I recall from high school, in scientific notation the whole part of a
number expressed this way must be <=1 and <10.
Possibly a satisfactory enhancement would be to follow a stricter protocol
for scientific notation... strings with a single "E" in them being a number
if and only if they contain a decimal point after a single leading non-zero
digit?
09114E715806 = text string
0.9114E715806 = text string
09.114E715806 = text string
9E715806 = text string (hm)
9.114E715806 = number
This would be okay with me.
You could be even stricter by requiring it be an uppercase "E" with a + or -
sign following.
This one I like less. Xtalk has always been case insensitive, and
introducing a single instance of case sensitivity could cause trouble.
In any case, I think documentation is the answer. No matter how the
problem is resolved at the engine level, people will need to be aware of
the potential issues.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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