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

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>
>> Just another example of the fact that PHP was designed by incompetent
>> amateurs :-(
>>
>> http://www.junauza.com/2010/12/top-50-programming-quotes-of-all-time.html
>
> Unless I am misunderstanding the argument... perl and python both
> support what is suggested here.
>
> jd@jd-desktop:~$ perl -e 'print int('1e+01')';
> 10

You're misunderstanding the argument.

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