java.io/141

[Jeff Sturm]

The following reply was made to PR java.io/141; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm@detroit.appnet.com>
To: tromey@cygnus.com
Cc: Java Gnats Server <java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com>,
        Warren Levy <warrenl@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: java.io/141
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:19:21 -0400

 Tom Tromey wrote:
 > I believe the JDK is wrong.
 > If you follow the JLS definition of a floating point constant, `.' is
 > not one.
 
 That sounds right.
 
 > Alternatively, one could argue that compatibility is important here,
 > and that the StreamTokenizer definition of a number is different from
 > the JLS definition.
 
 Since the JCL doesn't really say how `.' should be scanned, you can make an
 argument either way.  (I don't really want `.' to be scanned as a number, but I
 can live with it.)
 
 IIRC an exception was getting thrown when I tried to scan some source code with
 StreamTokenizer.  That made StreamTokenizer useless for me.  I don't think
 nextToken() should ever throw an exception other than IOException.  Perhaps I
 should have stated that in the bug report.
 
 
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 Jeff Sturm
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