5 Jul
2020
5 Jul
'20
2:08 a.m.
On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 12:03 PM Shantanu Jain hauntsaninja@gmail.com wrote:
- Finally, I did mention increasing the scope of constant value patterns to accommodate expressions (as opposed to just dotted names). If we were to do this, it’s a reason to prefer some syntaxes for constant value patterns over others.
I'm kinda theoretically in favour of expressions, but only the sort that logically "feel" like constants. Unary minus and the addition of real and imaginary parts are already supported, so what's still of value? IMO exponentiation of 2 is usually better spelled in hex (instead of 2**10, use 0x400, unless there's good reason), and since you can have underscores to break up an integer, that handles powers of 10 as well. What notations would you want to use?
ChrisA