2.4.5 Floating point literals

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2.4.5 Floating point literals

Floating point literals are described by the following lexical definitions:

  floatnumber | ::= | pointfloat | exponentfloat
  pointfloat | ::= | [intpart] fraction | intpart "."
  exponentfloat | ::= | (intpart | pointfloat) exponent
  intpart | ::= | digit+
  fraction | ::= | "." digit+
  exponent | ::= | ("e" | "E") ["+" | "-"] digit+

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Note that the integer and exponent parts of floating point numbers can look like octal integers, but are interpreted using radix 10. For example, "`077e010`" is legal, and denotes the same number as "`77e10`". The allowed range of floating point literals is implementation-dependent. Some examples of floating point literals:

    3.14    10.    .001    1e100    3.14e-10    0e0

Note that numeric literals do not include a sign; a phrase like `-1` is actually an expression composed of the unary operator `-` and the literal `1`.