On 09/04/2008, Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Okay, but I meant that spaces should be required just for numbers. I bet those examples are harder to find in existing scripts, if they exist at all. Why would anyone put 1.2 in a script in favour of '12'? --Antony --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
