On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Mark Janssen <mpc.jans...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Why can't n-ary numbers have dots? 0b1.11 is a perfectly valid
> representation of 1.75.
>

i would argue that in the context of fossil, which rarely uses floating
point numbers and never uses binary numbers, such a feature is YAGNI[1].
Maybe if you want to output your UUIDs in binary format... that might be
fun to do each year on April 1st.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren't_gonna_need_it

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