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".




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From: Glenn Morris
Date: 2013-10-24 00:30
To: tangcl
CC: 15679
Subject: Re: bug#15679: 24.3; Error description of Floating Point Type
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?