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

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

On Sat 30/08/08 10:40 AM , Albert Graef Dr....@t-... sent:
> Eddie Rucker wrote:
> > 1. ?
> 
> That might be a C speciality, I'm pretty sure that this is neither 
> Pascal nor Algol syntax. (Pure also allows this, but only if followed by
> a scale factor, as in 1.e-7.)
> 
> But .5 has been supported by every programming language that I remember
> right now (except Lisp), back to the venerable Algol 60, so there must 
> be some reason for that. At least Pure is in good company there.
> 
> Just for the record, Haskell allows neither .5 nor 5., even if followed
> by a scale factor.
> 

mzscheme does but I don't know about common lisp.
 > (* .4 .5)
 0.2

One of these days, I'm going to try to program something with common lisp to see what it is like. Maybe then I can figure out why the 
common lisp folks and the scheme folks bicker and bite at each other all of the time.

e.r.