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From: dxf <dxforth@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: FP number syntax
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 12:52:28 +1100
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On 26/12/2024 10:28 am, Paul Rubin wrote:
> dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> writes:
>> there's been little historical demand '1.34' be recognized as a float.
> 
> It's a mistake I make all the time, but I figure it's one of Forth's
> frozen oddities.  In a non-ANS Forth, I'd probably make 1.34 a float and
> use some other scheme for literal doubles.

Embedded punctuation in doubles was something I was never happy with
(misleading, can make a typo and still be accepted).  So when ANS limited
it to one decimal point at the end I was rather relieved.