From: Chris Ross <chris@...>
Date: 2003-04-24T15:24:02+09:00
Subject: Re: 0 prefix in floats ?

I suspect it's to remove ambiguity so the .5 can't be confused by
the programmer or interpreter as a method call on the previous object.
[Although I could, and probably am, wrong].

Regards,

Chris

On Thursday, April 24, 2003, at 07:02 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>
> .5
> #<SyntaxError: (eval):1: compile error
> (eval):1: no .<digit> floating literal anymore; put 0 before dot
> (eval):1: parse error>
>         /home/matju/bin/iruby:57
>
> May I know what happened with floats written like ".5" ? why is that
> syntax no longer supported ?
>
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