Re: notes from Presentation Syntax task force meeting

Jos de Bruijn wrote:
>>    -- Regarding literals like 123.456, we'll require a suffix to tell us
>>       which datatype to use:
> 
> As I just mentioned in the telecon I suggest to follow Turtle:
> 
>>           123.456d ==> "123.456"^^<xs:decimal>  
> 
> 123.456 ==> "123.456"^^<xs:decimal>
> 
>>           123.456e ==> "123.456"^^<xs:double>   (as in Java/C)
> 
> 123.456e0 ==> "123.456"^^<xs:double>
> 
>>           123.456f ==> "123.456"^^<xs:float>    (as in Java/C)
> 
> there is no shortcut syntax for floats.
> 
> 
> Best, Jos
> 
> 

+1

Axel

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Dr. Axel Polleres
Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, 
Galway
email: axel.polleres@deri.org  url: http://www.polleres.net/