| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Why don't we accept exponential format for integers? |
| Date: | 2010-12-17 20:46:12 |
| Message-ID: | 5599.1292618772@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com> writes:
> Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jun 24 2010, 21:47:49)
> [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> isinstance(10,int)
> True
> isinstance(1e10,int)
> False
Right. Possibly a more concrete reason why this doesn't seem like a
great idea:
1e+1 integer?
1e+0 integer?
1e-0 integer?
1e-1 definitely not an integer
regards, tom lane
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