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

From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>,
 48678 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: bug#48678: [PATCH] lex floats with trailing dot and exponent
 correctly
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 14:37:42 +0200

Am Do., 27. Mai 2021 um 14:36 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
<p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>:
>
> Am Do., 27. Mai 2021 um 09:41 Uhr schrieb Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>:
> >
> > Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> 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.
>
> At least for me it's parsed as a symbol.

Oops, taking that back, I checked 1e.6 instead of 1.e6.
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