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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 09:40:19 +0200

Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> 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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