From: Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com>
To: caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Float literals
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:08:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46817245.4020305@gmail.com> (raw)
In writing a syntax highlighter for Ocaml, I've dug into the code for
float literals:
let float_literal =
['0'-'9'] ['0'-'9' '_']*
('.' ['0'-'9' '_']* )?
(['e' 'E'] ['+' '-']? ['0'-'9'] ['0'-'9' '_']*)?
This matches what the reference manual says about float literals:
float-literal ::= [-] (0…9) { 0…9∣ _ } [. { 0…9∣ _ }] [(e∣ E) [+∣ -]
(0…9) { 0…9∣ _ }]
But it doesn't match some expectations I have about float literals. The
following are all float literals:
3.14 (* no problem here *)
6.022E23 (* no problem here *)
9.109e-31 (* still no problem *)
2. (* a float - blank decimal part *)
1e6 (* an integer? no, a float without a . Problem.*)
13 (* valid as a float, according to the above definition *)
Does anyone else find the last two cases kind of odd? Maybe it's not a
big deal because the 1e6 is scientific notation, which is float-y, and
the last one is always parsed as an integer, I assume because of
precedence in the lexing functions.
E.
next reply other threads:[~2007-06-26 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-26 20:08 Edgar Friendly [this message]
2007-06-26 20:38 ` [Caml-list] " Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-06-27 4:10 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-27 4:48 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-06-26 20:48 ` Robert Roessler
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