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Posted to dev@velocity.apache.org by Matías Giovannini <ma...@k-bell.com> on 2003/07/01 19:53:11 UTC
Re: Velocity Numerics: Floating Point Literals
On Sunday, June 29, 2003, at 02:57 PM, Will Glass-Husain wrote:
> It's not featuritis. It's a simple change to the (currently
> non-committed)
> floating point literal format. It will add 3 characters to the regular
> expression and 1 line to the floating point node. I'd be happy to
> support
> this minor language syntax as I will support the floating point literal
> syntax in general.
Fine, except it should be a postfix unary operator and not part of the
number syntax. Although not very sensical, regularity asks for this to
be the same:
75%
75 %
.75E2%
And then, why not have per mille (‰) and degree (°) too?
I just don't like it.
Matías.
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