Re: Why don't we accept exponential format for integers?

"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 14:35 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I have never heard of any programming system anywhere that accepts
>> such
>> a syntax for integers (assuming it distinguishes integers from other
>> numbers at all).

> Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 15 2010, 16:22:56) 
> [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
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> print int(1e+01)
> 10

That's a conversion, not an integer natively.
        regards, tom lane