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bug#48678: [PATCH] lex floats with trailing dot and exponent correctly
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#48678: [PATCH] lex floats with trailing dot and exponent correctly |
Date: |
Thu, 27 May 2021 09:40:19 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> On Mai 27 2021, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> Yes, it's a rather scary change -- people will have code that sloppily
>> parses noisy things like "1foo" and expect to get a 1 out, and ".e6"
>> could well be noise that they expect to have ignored.
>>
>> So I'm sceptical.
>
> But then 1.e6 should be parsed as a symbol.
Oops, I thought this was about string-to-number, which it wasn't at all.
Hm. Currently 1.e6 reads to 1? Weird.
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bug#48678: [PATCH] lex floats with trailing dot and exponent correctly, Mattias Engdegård, 2021/05/27