Post #1864714
2026-05-01 20:31 UTC
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.)
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@chemoelectric@masto.ai 2026-05-01 20:34
I am not going to do like C where the type of a literal is written into its notation. I forget exactly how to write it in Ada but presume it is done with attributes somehow. Even with C, I have to look up a lot of things like how to write decimal floating point. Especially as there is more than one system for that.