Re: Parsing issue with 1e12

Malcolm Wallace <[email protected]> Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:24:37 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.haskell.yhc,gmane.comp.lang.haskell.hat
Organization	Dept of Computer Science, University of York
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

"Neil Mitchell" <[email protected]> writes:

> Both GHC and Hugs parse 1e12 as a number, but Hat and Yhc don't.

I suspect this was an unnoticed change in the Haskell Report spec.
Originally I think the exponent form was allowed only if there was a
decimal point before the 'e'.  I see this is no longer the case.
Yes, this is likely to affect the hpc parser as well.

Regards,
    Malcolm