machine placement spec

[roger peppe]

On 11 November 2011 11:20, William Reade <william.reade at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 16:14 -0200, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
>> > I don't think we *need* to understand floats, but I think I'd rather
>> > type "2.5T" than "2560G". I think the slightly greater ease for users
>> > outweighs the minimal -- if any -- additional effort in parsing.
>>
>> Sounds good.
>
> Cool.

small devil's advocate moment:
".4e6K", "NaNG" ?

it might be worth restricting the float syntax.