Subject: bug#48678: [PATCH] lex floats with trailing dot and exponent correctly

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 00:13:33 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Obviously this doesn't apply to 1.e6 which any sane person agrees is
>> the float 1.0e+6 (including Common Lisp).
>> 
>> The attached patch fixes this bug.
>
> Brace for massive breakage.

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.

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