Re: Proposal: Improve Read Integer

Ian Lynagh wrote:

Proposal: Improve Read Integer http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4500 Currently, according to H98, H2010, GHC and hugs,    reads "1.2" :: [(Integer, String)] is    [] whereas I would expect it to be    [(1,".2")] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/ticket/4500/read-integer.dpat...

This is a good change. But for GHC the patch is not complete. It needs to provide the old behavior in H98 and H2010 mode. Thanks, Yitz