"It was a minor issue in the spec that has been fixed in the devel version of 
the manual."

But the devel version of the manual is not what users find when they consult 
the documentation on the Nim website.

As someone who spent 50 years of my life in software development, I completely 
understand that errors happen. But I do question your use of the word "minor". 
This was an error in the specification of the syntax of floating point 
literals, pretty basic in a programming language! And it was not "minor" to me, 
since I spent part of my day figuring out why my code wouldn't compile (with an 
error message that was not terribly helpful) and once I understood the problem, 
reporting a concise example version of it here, in case it was an unreported 
issue.

Also, I find it a bit hard to understand why the fix to the manual, which I see 
on github, was not applied to the production version of the manual (ala 
OpenBSD's errata applied to the Stable branch), instead of leaving a known 
error sitting there to bite more folks.

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