Re: [Yaml-core] [YAML] To quote or not to quote (I think it's a bug)

[Clark C. E. <cc...@cl...>]

This is horrible, IMHO.  It has to be fixed.  I'm very sorry for the
late response.

Clark

On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 04:17:20PM +1100, Daniel Sheppard wrote:
| > So clearly they're allowed, in 1.2_3 the underscore is simply 
| > ignored and
| > the parser should undestand 1.23. If I fancy to write my own 
| > YAML by hand
| > and make it easily readable (which is kind of the original 
| > purpose) I could
| > write 100_000_000.03 which would be a nice looking float. Hence the
| > ambiguity with "1.2_3"
| 
| Hmmmm... I just noticed that the specification
| (http://yaml.org/type/float.html) isn't just unclear, it's inconsistent.
| 
| The examples listed include:
| 
| exponentioal: 685.230_15e+03
| 
| Notwithstanding the spelling of exponential, that example is not
| consistent with the regular expression (which allows underscores only if
| they preceed the decimal point -
| [-+]?([0-9][0-9_]*)?\.[0-9.]*([eE][-+][0-9]+)?).
| 
| Dan.
| 
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