Re: Probably bug in implementation of numerical constant parsing

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 17/09/2012 18:08, Egor Skriptunoff wrote:
> On 9/17/12, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> writes:
> > > The same problem occurs with
> > > 	print(64..s)
> >
> > But, why would anybody write that instead of  print("64"..s) ?
> > -miles
>
> I stumbled upon it when I was trying to write something like this:
> print(n+1..' rabbits')

Sometime, I dream of a language forcing to put whitespace around operators.
I believe it helps readability, and it would reduce or eliminate such ambiguity...
But I don't know if it would be popular, some programmers like compact code (or hate 
typing, but a good IDE can help here).

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