Post #1864455
2026-05-01 20:23 UTC
I just changed hiha floating point numbers to like 123.45↑+30 or 123_456.0^-30
I do not care if some silly person puts this on a bad language design list because it is different from what they are used to. It is so there can be a lexical representation for vector components.
#programmingLanguages
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@chemoelectric@masto.ai 2026-05-01 20:31
I WAS going to allow a connecting punctuation between the number and the identifier in a vector component token, but now think I will allow white space. Yup, the token can have white space. Why not. (I could go as far as to allow white space in identifiers. But I am not going that far. Algol 68 may allow spaces, but we are following a more Ada-like design for identifiers, though not with case-folding. Case-folding is too variable across languages.)