0000016: doc: description of float token wrong

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0000016

mercury

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2007-10-05 16:26

2007-10-18 16:20

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pjrm

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juliensf

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text

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resolved

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0000016: doc: description of float token wrong

Description

According to the current definition of the float token in the Mercury Reference manual, 1.0E-3 is not a float token (unless `-' is considered a "decimal digit"; which it isn't according to every authority I can think of):

  @item float
  A floating point literal consists of a sequence of decimal digits,
  a decimal point and a sequence of digits (the fraction part), and
  the letter @samp{E} and another sequence of decimal digits (the exponent).
  The fraction part or the exponent (but not both) may be omitted.

Please insert

  and an optional sign (@samp{+} or @samp{-})

after {E}. Please also consider inserting

  (or @samp{e})

Thanks,

pjrm.

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~0000026 juliensf (administrator) 2007-10-15 22:58	I've posted a diff that fixes this.

~0000030 juliensf (administrator) 2007-10-18 16:20	r1.409 of doc/reference_manual.texi fixes this.

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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
Issue History
2007-10-05 16:26	pjrm	New Issue
2007-10-15 22:58	juliensf	Note Added: 0000026
2007-10-15 22:58	juliensf	Assigned To	=> juliensf
2007-10-15 22:58	juliensf	Status	new => assigned
2007-10-18 16:20	juliensf	Status	assigned => resolved
2007-10-18 16:20	juliensf	Resolution	open => fixed
2007-10-18 16:20	juliensf	Note Added: 0000030

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