Oh! Just found that common lisp used these for types: - s = short - f = single - d = double - l = long
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/numbers-characters-and-strings.html Is this still true for Racket? On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Ben Greenman <benjaminlgreen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just confused, is there any reason that 'd' 'e' 'f' 's' 'l' are all > accepted as exp-mark s? > http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/reader.html% > 20numbers#%28part._parse-number%29 > > > Before I came here I asked Wolfram Alpha. It says: > - 3d3 is probably "3 dice with 3 sides each" and prints a histogram of > probabilities > - 3e3 is 3000. (Phew) > - 3f3 is probably "3 degrees farenheit, cubed". No histogram. > - 3s3 is probably "3 seconds cubed". But it also offers to find roots for > "y = 3f3". > - 3l3 is "fruit fly gene". > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
