22 Sep
2017
22 Sep
'17
4:50 a.m.
On 22/09/17 03:57, David Mertz wrote:
I think you are missing the point I was assuming at. Having a binary/hex float literal would tempt users to think "I know EXACTLY what number I'm spelling this way"... where most users definitely don't in edge cases.
Quite. What makes me -0 on this idea is that a lot of the initial enthusiasm on this list came from people saying exactly that.
-- Rhodri James - Kynesim Ltd