At Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:23:17 +0000, Tim Brown wrote: > The reader's definition (above) explicitly states that E is only an > exponent marker for bases 2, 8 and 10 -- would you not be changing the > meaning of #x1E+2 from 1 E 2 to... er... whatever 16^2 is? Or does the > lack of delimiters in #x1E+2 mean that it's just an erroneous string of > characters?
It's erroneous, because `#x' must be followed by a number in base 16, and 1E+2 isn't a number in base 16. I'm not a big fan of the number syntax, but I don't think we should change it. ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
