Antony Scriven wrote:
> On 08/04/2008, Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have been preparing a talk for the upcoming FISL > > conference in Brazil: > > http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/9.0/www/ > > > > One of the items I planned to discuss is why Vim has no > > floating point support. Well, this turned into actually > > implementing it. > > > > The main problem with floating point is that the usual > > notation already has a meaning: > > > > echo 123.456 > > 123456 > > > > [...] > > How many people actually do that? Should they be doing that? > IMHO I'd force people to use whitespace for concatenation in > this case (i.e. 123 . 456) and have 123.456 be a floating > point number. That's how Perl works, for example. --Antony Search in existing scripts and you will find examples of doing string concatenation like this. I don't want to break existing scripts in some obscure way. -- Place mark here ->[ ]<- if you want a dirty monitor. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
