[PD] float parsing

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Miller Puckette wrote:

> Dunno which is should be, but the 'c' language doesn't
> allow unary '+' in front of numerical literals... so I
> followed that lead.

I don't know which C language you are talking about. Try compiling the 
following program with options -ansi -pedantic-errors:

#if + +1
int main (void) {
   int foo[+ +1] = { + + + + + + + + + + +1 };
   return foo[0];
}
#endif

This demonstrates that unary + works in front of numerical literal, both 
in the main language and in the preprocessor. I don't know of a way to 
test whether the last + before the 1 is actually considered part of the 
literal or not. However, both scanf() and strtod() consider + as part of 
a float literal (was there ever a time that they didn't? really?).

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