Re: Is it a bug or a feature?

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Christian writes:
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> ïÔ: Christian.CUVIER at agriculture.gouv.fr
> ëÏÍÕ: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
> ôÅÍÁ: Re: Is it a bug or a feature?
> äÁÔÁ: 14 ÏËÔÑÂÒÑ 2002 Ç. 19:32
> 
> 	Well, I clearly see that ex.exe "cleverly" identified a number in
> scientific notation, and made a syntactically correct parsing of line2.
> 	Because this clever behaviour leads to different handlings for the same
> mistake (forgetting the space), leading to unpredicted result without an
> error, I find it slightly dangerous. I never deliberately glue
> statements in this way, so it doesn't bother me really.
> 	I'd expect c=3.0e25=0 to read as c=3.0 e25=0 (consistent with line1); a
> proper coding for the other solution might be c=(3.0e25=0).
> 	At least, why not issue a warning in such ambiguous cases?

> 	Regards.

> 	CChris

Try please the case below:

c=3.0a25=0

See 'a', not 'e'. Works fine without spaces, 
and 'e' is just the special letter for the exponente.
Do not use 'e' at all for such the variable
names. This 'e' is special not only in EU.

Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz at peterlink.ru

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