[mercury-users] Proposed change to char literal syntax

[Nicholas Nethercote]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Michael Day wrote:

>>> If integer literals were customisable as well then Mercury could support 
>>> BigInteger literals and other number types transparently. Defining the 
>>> semantics of literal values in the library seems more elegant than 
>>> hard-wiring them.
>> 
>> I disagree.
>
> May I ask why?

I just think allowing numeric literals to have more than one possible 
meaning is a bad idea, due to the possibility of confusion.

Nick
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