[ESS-bugs] 1 vs. 1.

[Martin Maechler]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>   >> 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. :)

Actually encountered the mis-fontification as well today ... during
typing / deleting

Further buglet :    'e1'  is also fontified as constant number, but it is not.

Martin
>
>     Vitalie.
>
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