08:05 <veltas> KipIngram: Interesting

08:06 <veltas> Yeah there's nothing inherently wrong with that choice, obviously you need easy enough rules to remember whichever system you go with

08:06 <veltas> Easier than writing 1000000

13:41 <KipIngram> Yeah, I'm still a little tempted by the idea, but for the time being I'm let 'e' make the number floating point.

13:42 <KipIngram> I can just picture myself, though, being smugly happy at just having to write 1e9 in a definition instead of the ten-character 1000000000

13:42 <KipIngram> Given my fondness for short definitions. :-)

13:44 <KipIngram> But then I'd have to decide whether to treat negative exponents with no . as an error or not. Treating it as an error would be a little more "pure" (i.e., the . being absolutely required), but on the other hand 1e-3 has a perfectly clear meaning.

13:45 <KipIngram> Someone asked me about doubles the other day - it had occurred to me that I could let 'e' be the required item for floating point and then I could have doubles and floatingn point.

13:45 <KipIngram> I'm just not accustomed to having scientific notation be *required* though - I don't totally like that vibe.

13:47 <KipIngram> And finally the other thing that occurred to me was to have a clean point within the code where I have a "power of 10 floating point number," and then tack the use of the FPU to get a fully standard float on after that. Then I'd have a system that provided some sort of floating point support even in the absence of floating point hardware.

13:47 <KipIngram> Make the FPU optional.

16:09 <KipIngram> Well, this section of composition of forms in the LISP 1.5 primer is a little opaque. I mean, I see exactly what they're wanting to get at, but the description is rather intricate - seems like it could have been made more clear. I'm not sure this would have "taught me" this material if I didn't already have a sense of what was coming. At least not without going through it extremely slowly and carefully.

20:59 <dave0> maw

21:58 <KipIngram> Afternoon.