Re: Numeric Literals (Summary)

On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 12:54  PM, Luke Palmer wrote:
> My opinion: don't allow floating point arbitrary radix.  It's uncommon
> enough that it could be done with a module.  It would be trivial with
> a grammar munge.

I tend to agree.  The amount of time you're going to want to use 
floating-point in arbitrary radix (vs. the number of times you are 
going to accidentally type a dot where you shouldn't and get weird bugs 
instead of a simple syntax err) indicates to me that we'd be better off 
disallowing it.

I still can't find a compelling reason for including it, personally.

MikeL