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From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Why don't we accept exponential format for integers?
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In response to Re: Why don't we accept exponential format for integers?  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> Oh, *I* understand the difference.  Any app developer is going to see it
> as stupidly arbitrary, though.

Speaking as someone who spent 9 years doing app development, I dispute
the word "any".

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