From: Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Float literals
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:38:26 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070627063826.e6b3ddbd.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46817245.4020305@gmail.com>
Edgar Friendly wrote:
> But it doesn't match some expectations I have about float literals. The
> following are all float literals:
>
> 3.14 (* no problem here *)
> 6.022E23 (* no problem here *)
> 9.109e-31 (* still no problem *)
> 2. (* a float - blank decimal part *)
> 1e6 (* an integer? no, a float without a . Problem.*)
> 13 (* valid as a float, according to the above definition *)
>
> Does anyone else find the last two cases kind of odd?
I do not find the second last case odd (all languages I have used
consider that a float), but I do for the last one.
Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-26 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-26 20:08 Edgar Friendly
2007-06-26 20:38 ` Erik de Castro Lopo [this message]
2007-06-27 4:10 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-06-27 4:48 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-06-26 20:48 ` Robert Roessler
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