Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"

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.