Mail Archives: djgpp/1995/05/15/14:59:50
>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Koning 1695 <pkoning AT chipcom DOT com> writes:
Paul> I know C is a screwed up language, but this I just can't
Paul> believe. Where does it say that? And if it does say that,
Paul> does anyone know why? I can't think of any reason in
Paul> parsing or anywhere else that would justify such a
Paul> braindamaged rule.
1e-5
is a legal number (the e exponentiates). C tokenizing rules cause
similar-looking expressions involving hex constants to get tokenized
as a single token. Yes, it's brain-damaged, but it's not as bizarre
as you might think.
-Mat
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