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digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 2734] New: Ambiguity in tokenizing: _._ as a float literal

reply d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:
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           Summary: Ambiguity in tokenizing: _._ as a float literal
           Product: D
           Version: 2.025
          Platform: PC
               URL: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/lex.html
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: spec
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: bugzilla digitalmars.com
        ReportedBy: dhasenan gmail.com


http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/lex.html
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/lex.html

Under "Floating Literals", the spec says:
DecimalFloat -> DecimalDigits
DecimalFloat -> DecimalDigits . DecimalDigits
DecimalFloat -> . DecimalDigits
etc

DecimalDigits is defined as:
DecimalDigits -> DecimalDigit
DecimalDigits -> DecimalDigit DecimalDigits
DecimalDigit -> [0123456789_]

From this, we can derive:
DecimalFloat -> DecimalDigits . DecimalDigits
-> DecimalDigit . DecimalDigit
-> _ . _

To resolve the ambiguity, _ cannot be allowed as the first character in a
float, and it cannot be allowed as the first character after the decimal point.


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Mar 15 2009
next sibling parent d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:
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unknown simplemachines.org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |unknown simplemachines.org





It appears DMD 2.026 already works as you suggest; _1.0 is not recognized as a
valid float.

However, 1_._1 is, which doesn't seem ambiguous to me.  Once you're after the .
and in a FloatLiteral, any characters in [_0-9] should be eaten to finish the
float literal.

The spec just needs to be corrected with a new rule that defines 0,
NonZeroDigit, and then a repeating of those with DecimalDigits (Decimal is
almost fine except its handling of octals.)

-[Unknown]


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Mar 29 2009
prev sibling parent d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2734


Walter Bright <bugzilla digitalmars.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |bugzilla digitalmars.com
         Resolution|                            |FIXED



20:12:47 PST ---
http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/changeset/2150

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