Ahah! That explains it. Is there a better way to create floating point literals that avoid this?
David On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 9:26:42 AM UTC-4, Steven G. Johnson wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 9:18:11 AM UTC-4, David Gleich wrote: >> >> Can anyone give me a quick explanation for why these statements seem to >> parse differently? >> >> julia> 1782.^12. + 1841.^12. >> > > .^ and .+ are (elementwise/broadcasting) operators in Julia, and there is > a parsing ambiguity here because it is not clear whether the . goes with > the operator or the number. > > See also the discussion at > > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/15731 > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/11529 > > for possible ways that this might be made less surprising in the future. >
