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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mattias EngdegÄrd <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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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Mattias EngdegÄrd <mattiase <at> acm.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 48678 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48678: [PATCH] lex floats with trailing dot and exponent correctly
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 09:32:53 +0200
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.

Andreas.

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