On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 07:53:05PM +0000, Andrew Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 01:10:05PM -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 06:38:08PM +0000, Andrew Wilson wrote:
> >> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 07:26:06PM +0100, Angel Faus wrote:
> >>> For example, the integer 30 can be written in hexadecimal base in two
> >>> equivalent ways:
> >>>
> >>> my $x = 16:1D
> >>> my $x = 16:1.14
> >>>
> >>> These two representations are incompatible, so writing something like
> >>> C<16:D.13> will generate a compile-time error.
> >>
> >> So, can we specify floats in other bases?
> >
> > Why would you want to?
>
> Personally I wouldn't. That doesn't mean it's not useful to someone.
I can't imagine someone would want to write something like this:
2:10.01 # 2.25 decimal
8:2.2 # same
16:2.4 # same
except for obfuscatory purposes. Besides, if we allow dots for
floating point numbers how do we represent this integer:
256:234.254
?
-Scott
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