On 2016-08-27, Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2016, at 13:24, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Becuase the parser thinks you've entered a floating point number with
>> a fractional part of "bit_length".
>
> 123.+456 doesn't think that the fractional part is "+456".
That's because the parser (or more traditionally the lexical analyzer)
treats '+' differently than it does the characters [a-zA-Z].
> (Of course, the real reason is "because it would be even more
> annoying to get random errors only with attributes that start with
> "e" or "j")
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