Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH] syntax: go: fix bugs in number literal regex

[Benno Schulenberg]

> >     color red "\<0([0-7]*|[xX][0-9a-fA-F]+)\>"
> >     color red "(\<0+|\B)\.[0-9]+([Ee][+-]?[0-9]+)?i?\>"
> >     color red "\<[1-9][0-9]*(\.[0-9]*)?([Ee][+-]?[0-9]+)?i?\>"
>
> Doesn't match 09.0 or 09i :(

Hm.  But does anyone _want_ to write things that way?  Wouldn't it
be more likely that those were typos for 90.0 and 90i?

> I vote sticking with the old regex from commit a794c331, maybe with a
> tiny bit of grouping and reordering to match the spec more closely:
>
> color red "\<([1-9][0-9]*|0[0-7]*|0[xX][0-9A-Fa-f]+)\>"
> color red "\<[0-9]+\.[0-9]*([eE][+-]?[0-9]+)?i?\>"
> color red "\<[0-9]+[eE][+-]?[0-9]+i?\>"
> color red "\B\.[0-9]+([eE][+-]?[0-9]+)?i?\>"
> color red "\<[0-9]+i\>"

Anyone else who has an opinion on this?

Benno