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  1. Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!kth.se!news.kth.se!RICHARD
  3. From: RICHARD@ttt.kth.se
  4. Subject: Ambiguous numbers
  5. Message-ID: <RICHARD.92Nov11115905@CLYDE.ttt.kth.se>
  6. Sender: usenet@kth.se (Usenet)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: clyde.ttt.kth.se
  8. Organization: Department of TeleTransmission Theory
  9. Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 10:59:05 GMT
  10. Lines: 14
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  13. when *read-base* is something like 16, some numbers are of ambiguous type.
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  15. For example, 0E0 could be read as an integer 224, or as the single-float 0.0
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  17. What I want to know is, which type SHOULD take precedence in such a case?
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