[ESS-bugs] 1 vs. 1.

[Vitalie Spinu]

  >> Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu>
  >> on Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:35:00 -0500 wrote:

  > I just got around to testing 12.09 r4989.  There is one issue
  > with highlighting that I don't like.  '1' is highlighted in
  > an annoying hospital yellow.  

(it's ess-numbers-face derived from font-lock-type-face)

  > I guess I could live with that.

This won't be the default in the official release. 

  > 
  > But '1.' is not highlighted at all.  Having just spent the best part
  > of 3 weeks coding in C/C++, I think we should make no distinction
  > between integers and doubles; leave that to the strongly typed
  > languages.

I missed that for the simple reason that 1 and 1. in R are both doubles
(integer is 1L), and it didn't occur to me that somebody might want to
use 1. :)

    Vitalie.