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

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

On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 01:43 +0200, Albert Graef wrote:
> 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.

I think this thing must have started with business folk or education
folk. All the Mathematicians, Engineers, and Scientists I know frown on
this sort of thing.

e.r.