Hex floats
Stewart Gordon
smjg_1998 at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 16 04:28:01 PST 2012
On 16/02/2012 12:04, Don Clugston wrote:
> On 15/02/12 22:24, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> What's the original rationale for requiring that hex float literals must
>> always have an exponent? For example, 0xFFi obviously must be float, not
>> integer, so why does the compiler (and the spec) require an exponent?
>
> The syntax comes from C99.
Do you mean the syntax has just been copied straight from C99 without any thought about
making it more lenient?
Stewart.
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