Hi,
Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Antony Scriven wrote: > >> On 08/04/2008, Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I have been preparing a talk for the upcoming FISL >> > conference in Brazil: >> > http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/9.0/www/ >> > >> > One of the items I planned to discuss is why Vim has no >> > floating point support. Well, this turned into actually >> > implementing it. >> > >> > The main problem with floating point is that the usual >> > notation already has a meaning: >> > >> > echo 123.456 >> > 123456 >> > >> > [...] >> >> How many people actually do that? Should they be doing that? >> IMHO I'd force people to use whitespace for concatenation in >> this case (i.e. 123 . 456) and have 123.456 be a floating >> point number. That's how Perl works, for example. --Antony > > Search in existing scripts and you will find examples of doing string > concatenation like this. I don't want to break existing scripts in some > obscure way. > what about a command similar to scriptencoding which would enable support for floating point numbers in this particular script? Or just allows to write them without the need to use a "marker"? "Marked" floating point numbers would then always be allowed. IMHO, scripts that use a dot to concatenate literal numbers deserve to be broken. The only reason I could think of is to (ab-)use Vim's conversion from octal to decimal as in :echo 123.0456 which results in 123302 -- a rather obscure way to generate this output. I strongly think Vim should use the same format for literal floating point numbers that most other languages use. Regards, Jürgen -- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. (Calvin) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
