[Gambas-user] Value box for numeric values

[Aleksandrs Livshics]

On Saturday 05 September 2009 11:41:42 Doriano Blengino wrote:
> Benoît Minisini ha scritto:
> >> Hi gambas users.
> >> It seems to me that it is impossible to enter a number in
> >> scientific notation in a value box. It does not accept
> >> "E" or "D" letters which are used to separate exponent.
> >> So value as 1.0E-1 is illegal. If it is so, it must be treated as a bug
> >> ! Or am I doing something wrongly ?
> >> Alex
> >
> > I don't know if "Number" should accept scientic notation, or if I should
> > better create a new ValueBox Type (for example "Scientific").
> >
> > And where did you see that "D" is an exponent separator?
>
> I too vaguely remember the "D" letter, probably it means "double
> precision" in C or Fortran.

 Exactly . This was an old fortran convention that the number should be
treated as "double precision". In modern Fortran there are other means to tell 
that. 
Alex