Re: [Jscheme-user] reading numbers?

[Timothy H. <tim...@ma...>]

On Thursday, August 8, 2002, at 06:13 PM, Ken Anderson wrote:

> Why does this
> > 0208030030
> 2.0803003E8
> get read as a Double?
The initial 0 signals an octal number
(so 010 would read as 8 as in Java)
However, the presence of an 8 indicates an error and the
reader tries to read it as a double instead.

We should probably just have the reader
throw an error in this case....
>
> While this:
> > 208030030
> 208030030
> gets read as a Integer.
>
> And this:
> > 20803003000
> 20803003000L
> is read as a long?
Whole numbers are read as longs and if the are in the range of an
integer converted back into integers. This can be overridden using an
L suffix if you want a small number to be a long.

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