Elisp / C inconsistency for reading "1."

[Oleh Krehel <oleh.krehel@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I understand that it's documented in the manual that "1." is an
integer and not a float, but this feels very wrong coming from a C
background.

And a nuisance when I want to quickly compute a percentage in
*scratch*:

    (/ 123. 338)
    ;; => 0

Then I see the error, get annoyed and change to "123.0".
This happens a lot.

Is there any chance for this to be changed?

I did rgrep for "[0-9]\.[^0-9a-zA-Z]" across the emacs/lisp directory
and got 2250 hits.  Filtering that by code-only gives 38 hits, more
then half in vc-annotate.el.  Out of the ELPA/MELPA packages that I
use, the only hits were in zenburn-theme.el.

So it seems to me that this is an easy change to make: since most
Elisp code almost never uses the trailing decimal point in integers
anyway, make the changes to the 38 hits I mentioned above (just remove
the dot) and enforce this style with a compile-time warning/error. At
the same time change the reader to interpret "1." as a float thus
increasing the convenience of an interactive eval.

regards,
Oleh