On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Nicolas Cellier wrote:

> 2010/2/14 Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse at inria.fr>:
>>> what does our wonderful ANSI standard mentions?
>
> Base 2 to 36 with letter A to Z.
> Nothing about a-z. But nothing against it.

At 3.5.6 the BNF allows only uppercase letters (uppercaseAlphabetic). 
Lowercase letters are not valid.


Levente

>
> In the rationale, 10e10 is not allowed (Squeak), nor 1.0q (VW)
>
>>>
>>>> Previous usage of e notation was far better because just extending an
>>>> existing syntax, not creating a new one.
>>>> Maybe you'll have other ideas...
>>>
>>> Stef
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