> > * julia> 3e+1* > * 30.0* > > *julia> 3e + 1* > > * 9.154845485377136* >
Perhaps this is a good reason to change behaviour such that e is no longer a constant: it has always seemed bit odd to use a valuable latin singleton in this way. We could use a unicode script e (U+212F) instead, as suggested by wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerals_in_Unicode#Characters_for_mathematical_constants s