Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 04/06/08 21:40, Ilya Bobir wrote:
> [...]
> > If there are no scripts that use two numbers with a dot in between
> > without interleaving spaces then it follows that there are none that
> > have these kind of numbers with an exponent appended. And it means that
> > if the float syntax will be smart enough to tell a float without an
> > exponent from a concatenation then adding an exponent as a suffix will
> > not introduce any ambiguity. Am I missing something?
> >
> > Ilya Bobir
>
> What about 2.e32 ?
I think it's OK to not allow that and insist on using "2.0e32".
Just like you can't do ".5" but need to use "0.5" instead.
Rationale:
let e32 = " times a day"
echo 2.e32
2 times a day
echo 3.e32
3 times a day
This actually makes sense, so we should keep this backwards compatible.
The reasoning that "2.0" is currently not used is that it's not useful to
have this in a Vim script, you would write "20" instead.
I'm not saying I have accepted the backwards compatibility problem with
doing floating point this way, we still need to find that one script
that breaks.
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