Re: [pure-lang-users] gedit pure.lang

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

John Cowan wrote:
> Supporting those is silly.  a*.5?  No, no.  a*0.5 is far more readable.
> Just change the definition of a float.

In good ol' Europe we never write .5, I guess it's a US thing. But it's 
supported in most programming languages, and it doesn't do any harm in 
the Pure syntax. Conversely, 1. is forbidden, to avoid issues with the 
.. operator.

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
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