GNU bug report logs - #48678
[PATCH] lex floats with trailing dot and exponent correctly

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:57:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 48678 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>,
 48678 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48678: [PATCH] lex floats with trailing dot and exponent
 correctly
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 00:13:33 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 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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