No. I'm tongue in cheek pointing out the absurdity of the situation.
On Monday, January 5, 2015 12:57:45 PM UTC-6, Hans W Borchers wrote: > > 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`. >>> >>
