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@@ -2497,11 +2497,12 @@ This is to keep the same behavior as Eshell. * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 28.1 --- -** Some floating point numbers are now handled differently by the Lisp reader. -In previous versions of Emacs, floating point numbers like 1.e6 would -be read as 1. This has now been changed, and the Lisp reader will now -read that construct as 1000000.0. -That is, (read-from-string "1.e6") => (1000000.0 . 4) now. +** Some floating-point numbers are now handled differently by the Lisp reader. +In previous versions of Emacs, numbers with a trailing dot and an exponent +were read as integers and the exponent ignored: 2.e6 was interpreted as the +integer 2. Such numerals are now read as floats with the exponent included: +2.e6 is now read as the floating-point value 2000000.0. +That is, (read-from-string "1.e3") => (1000.0 . 4) now. +++ ** The 'lexical-binding' local variable is always enabled. |