On Monday, January 05, 2015 08:15:03 AM Hans W Borchers wrote: > By the way, has the bug x = 10; x.1 returning 1.0 been handled in 0.4? It's > still there in 0.3.
Nope. If you haven't filed an issue already, please do. --Tim > > On Monday, January 5, 2015 2:32:00 PM UTC+1, Simon Byrne wrote: > > * 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_mathematic > > al_constants > > > > s