Re: Literals, take 2

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.

andrew
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