parser bug for numeric constants

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• Subject: parser bug for numeric constants
• Date: Mon, 05 Dec 1994 16:29:54 -0800
• From: Lars Thomas Hansen <lth@cs.uoregon.edu>

The parser gets the type for floating-point numeric constants wrong. The
constant

	10.0

is typed as T_FLOAT, whereas it should be T_DOUBLE (Ellis & Stroustrup
section 2.5.3, "The type of a floating constant is _double_ unless
explicitly specified by a suffix".

--lars

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