There is also an issue filed: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9617
-viral On Tuesday, January 6, 2015 12:29:33 AM UTC+5:30, Peter Mancini wrote: > > 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`. >>>> >>>
