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Re: PR141

To: Andrew Haley <aph at cygnus dot co dot uk>
Subject: Re: PR141
From: Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>
Date: 24 Aug 2000 08:48:05 -0600
Cc: aph at cygnus dot com, java-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <8o15nr$3pe$1@korai.cygnus.co.uk> <87wvh7hho3.fsf@creche.cygnus.com> <14757.830.445704.367307@viagra.cygnus.co.uk>
Reply-To: tromey at cygnus dot com

>> This is an interesting one.  My reading is that `.' shouldn't be
>> treated as a number and that this is actually a bug in the JDK.

Andrew> I don't think so.  If you look at the spec, it says that "if a
Andrew> numeric character is encountered, then an attempt is made to
Andrew> recognize a number.

It seems weird to me that StreamTokenizer would have a different
definition of number than the JLS.  But you're right, that text
doesn't leave much room for alternate interpretations.

Andrew> I will submit a revised patch.  Minus zero, indeed!  :-)

Yeah.  Thanks!

Tom

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