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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
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On Mon, 07 Apr 2025 16:01:06 -0700
Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:

> bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> [...]
> > Since numbers using exponents without also using decimal points are
> > rare in my code base, I've decided to experiment with numbers like
> > 1e6 being integer constants rather that floats. (This is IN my
> > language.)  
> 
> You might want to look at Ada for existing practice.
> 
> In C, a constant with either a decimal point or an exponent is
> floating-point.  In Ada, 1.0e6 is floating-point and 1e6 is an
> integer. Of course this isn't very helpful if you want to represent
> numbers with a lot of non-zero digits; for that, you need digit
> separators.
> 
> [...]
> 

The same in VHDL.
I don't know about everybody, but for me it is a constant source of
syntax errors.