From 3e8a017d4227d0f5f31ebecffddb4a0262e4efe0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yoichi Hirai Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:36:02 +0100 Subject: docs: describe the form of number literals This is a part of #1390 --- docs/types.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/types.rst b/docs/types.rst index 0436fc70..896910ff 100644 --- a/docs/types.rst +++ b/docs/types.rst @@ -169,6 +169,14 @@ Fixed Point Numbers Rational and Integer Literals ----------------------------- +Integer literals are formed from a sequence of numbers in the range 0-9. +They are interpreted as decimals. For example, ``69`` means sixty nine. +Octal literals do not exist in Solidity and leading zeros are ignored. +For example, ``0100`` means one hundred. + +Decimal literals are formed by a ``.`` with at least one number on +one side. Examples include ``1.``, ``.1`` and ``1.3``. + Number literal expressions retain arbitrary precision until they are converted to a non-literal type (i.e. by using them together with a non-literal expression). This means that computations do not overflow and divisions do not truncate -- cgit v1.2.3