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master 2e1510d 1/2: Mention the recent floating point reader changes in
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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master 2e1510d 1/2: Mention the recent floating point reader changes in NEWS |
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Sat, 29 May 2021 02:08:45 -0400 (EDT) |
branch: master
commit 2e1510dd009a97e3952df6e6f6deb51aac854933
Author: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Commit: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Mention the recent floating point reader changes in NEWS
* etc/NEWS: Mention the floating point reader changes (bug#48678).
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etc/NEWS | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 876f63c..392b164 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -2496,6 +2496,13 @@ This is to keep the same behavior as Eshell.
* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 28.1
+---
+** Some floating point numbers are now handled differently by the Lisp reader.
+In previous versions of Emacs, floating point numbers like 1.e6 would
+be read as 1. This has now been changed, and the Lisp reader will now
+read that construct as 1000000.0.
+That is, (read-from-string "1.e6") => (1000000.0 . 4) now.
+
+++
** The 'lexical-binding' local variable is always enabled.
Previously, if 'enable-local-variables' was nil, a 'lexical-binding'