Does this mean you suggest to disallow variables names 'e', 'f', 'p' (and possibly others) in a programming environment for scientific computing? Hard to believe.
On Monday, January 5, 2015 7:41:49 PM UTC+1, Peter Mancini wrote: > > That is a case of e being overloaded. It helps with the OP's issue though. > For the scientific notation issue I would suggest choosing which is more > useful, natural e or using e for a base ten exponent. > > On Monday, January 5, 2015 12:22:11 PM UTC-6, Stefan Karpinski wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Peter Mancini <pe...@cicayda.com> wrote: >> >>> Usually a language handles this problem by making the constants such as >>> p and e as reserved. Thus you can't create a new variable with those names >>> and since they are constant you can't assign to them without raising an >>> error. >>> >> >> That doesn't help here since `2e+1` would still mean something different >> than `2e + 1`. >> >
