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

[Eddie R. <er...@bm...>]

On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 19:31 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Albert Graef scripsit:
> 
> > The following regex should properly describe Pure numbers, except for 
> > the case of a floating point number starting with a decimal point.  
> 
> Supporting those is silly.  a*.5?  No, no.  a*0.5 is far more readable.
> Just change the definition of a float.

I agree absolutely! I had a Chemistry Professor that used to get red hot
if students wrote numbers with a leading decimal point. Unfortunately
some of the  elementary statistics books I've had to use write numbers
that way. It looks like they would know better? It makes it hard to get
across to students not to write numbers when some of the books write
them that way.

Try writing on a pucked chalk board without a leading 0 ;-)

e.r.