Every data type has a unique printed representation, so a floating point
number whose value is 1500 only has a printed representation "1500.0". This
value has a fixed decimal point, not "either a decimal point".
tangcl@jjmatch.com wrote:
> Page 10, Section 2.3.2, the first of sentence of the second
paragraph.
> I think it should be corrected as "The read syntax for floating
point
> numbers requires either a decimal point (with at least one digit
> following), an exponent, or both. "
So you want "printed representation" to be replaced by "read syntax",
is
that it? Could you say why?