From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15679: 24.3; Error description of Floating Point Type Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:30:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382545867 29124 80.91.229.3 (23 Oct 2013 16:31:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:31:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 15679@debbugs.gnu.org To: tangcl@jjmatch.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 23 18:31:11 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VZ1Kw-0003BK-Ny for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 18:31:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50362 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZ1Kw-0001jN-Bd for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:31:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35102) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZ1Kp-0001j2-Or for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:31:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZ1Ko-0008O0-EV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:31:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:52349) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZ1Ko-0008Nq-7T for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:31:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VZ1Kn-0002dm-WD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:31:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:31:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 15679 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 15679-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B15679.138254583610119 (code B ref 15679); Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:31:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 15679) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Oct 2013 16:30:36 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38132 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VZ1KN-0002d9-FY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:30:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:34642 ident=Debian-exim) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VZ1KK-0002cw-89 for 15679@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:30:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZ1KI-0006gD-6t; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:30:30 -0400 X-Spook: S Box wire transfer Delta Force $400 million in gold X-Ran: ah:z~^z1gQ*uif/SGqud&,Ou/[24"$1"r:``Cf*+&O93]KmH@Kagxv-:hJL>sy6C%Wyinu X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (tangcl@jjmatch.com's message of "Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:11:19 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:79540 Archived-At: 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?