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- From: tydeman@tybor.com (Fred Tydeman)
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- Subject: Valid floating-point constants ?
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 12:04:57 GMT
- Organization: Tydeman Consulting
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- I have run across some tools and compilers that do not like:
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- 08.5 09. 09e0
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- They complain that those are invalid octal integers. I claim
- that they are valid decimal floating-point constants. Who is right?
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