[e-lang] Complex, rational, and other sorts of numbers in E

[Mark Miller]

At 03:17 PM 8/10/2004  Tuesday, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
>> [...] current status in Python is of
>> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0238.html ? 
>
>That PEP is final -- it has been ratified and accepted, [...]

Ok, unless anyone has an interesting objection, the next release of E will 
use "//" in place of the current "_/". Since this is an easy enough search 
and replace, I'm inclined to simply reject the old syntax with an 
informative error, and not provide any switch for backwards compatibility.
Objections?

With this change, the following code sequence (demonstrating an ambiguity 
pointed out, I believe, by Constantine) should no longer be surprising:

    ? def x_ := 4
    # value: 4

    ? x_/1
    # value: 4.0


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        Cheers,
        --MarkM