[GHC] #7613: readSigned consumes too much input

21 Jan 2013


      #7613: readSigned consumes too much input
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Reporter:  liyang                       |          Owner:                  
    Type:  bug                          |         Status:  new             
Priority:  normal                       |      Component:  libraries/base  
 Version:  7.6.1                        |       Keywords:                  
      Os:  Unknown/Multiple             |   Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
 Failure:  Incorrect result at runtime  |      Blockedby:                  
Blocking:                               |        Related:                  
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 {{{
...
reads "0.1" :: [(Int, String)]
 []
 }}}
I would have expected {{{[(0, ".1")]}}}. The Report specifies that
 {{{reads}}} for {{{Int}}} ought to essentially be {{{readSigned
 readDec}}}, and indeed {{{readDec}}} gives the expected result:
 {{{
...
readDec "0.1"
 [(0,".1")]
 }}}
I think the bug is due to the use of {{{lex}}} in {{{readSigned}}}, which
 consumes the entire "0.1" string, such that readDec no longer gives a
 clean parse.

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Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7613
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