feat: precise spec for natural numbers and scientific notation literals #596
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…rs and scientific notation literals.
robsimmons
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Sep 19, 2025
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Am I going to screw around with anchor refs or worse by changing this? The current title is misleading, as string literals are covered in a totally different section.
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Note: I ended up not going with a BNF-style notation here because I couldn't find any other BNF representations of tokens (as opposed to terms) in the language reference. |
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Preview for this PR is ready! 🎉 (also as a proofreading version). built with commit 6ee2e44. |
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This PR makes the lexical specification of natural numbers and scientific notation literals more precise.