Re: [whatwg] Find a number with . as the input

[Ian Hickson]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote:

 The definition of find a number ( http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/ 
 current-work/#find-a ) may cause a string containing a single U+002E 
 FULL STOP to be fed to the algorithm entitled rules for parsing 
 floating point number values ( 
 http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#rules1 ). The definition 
 for find a number claims that this step can never fail, but step 9 in 
 rules for parsing floating point number values returns an error in 
 this case.

Fixed.

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[whatwg] Find a number with . as the input

[Henri Sivonen]

The definition of find a number ( http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/ 
current-work/#find-a ) may cause a string containing a single U+002E  
FULL STOP to be fed to the algorithm entitled rules for parsing  
floating point number values ( http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/ 
current-work/#rules1 ). The definition for find a number claims  
that this step can never fail, but step 9 in rules for parsing  
floating point number values returns an error in this case.


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