We have merged the parsers into one, because we had 3 parsers that didn���t have any dedicated use-cases, juts were developed historical as at some point someone needed a bit more functionality, and then different parsers were used randomly on the system. As for the expression - yes we have to decide about it. If it���s only about being able to use exponent in float literals, one can use: ���Number readFrom: '2.5850009999999998e04������. If it���s about being similar to the other languages, we can also decide does it make sense to have a +2 literal.

Uko

> On 06 Feb 2015, at 09:04, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr> wrote:
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>> On 06 Feb 2015, at 09:02, stepharo <stepharo@free.fr> wrote:
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>> Le 5/2/15 10:40, Sven Van Caekenberghe a ��crit :
>>>> On 05 Feb 2015, at 10:36, Ben Coman <btc@openInWorld.com> wrote:
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>>>> I personally would prefer to be able to use exponents.�� No sure what the big picture is.
>>>> cheers -ben
>>> Of course exponents are still supported ;-)
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>>> The discussion is about the + sign for positive exponents. I am not sure, but I think that traditional Smalltalk did not support this, but it was added to support common practice in other languages. Now it is apparently gone again, probably not on purpose.
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>> I do not know I think that marcus removed it to avoid to have two parsers in the image.
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> Maybe this was a mistake���
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>�� �� �� ��Marcus