procyberian/emacs
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull requests Projects Releases Packages Wiki Activity Actions

Mention the recent floating point reader changes in NEWS

Browse source 
* etc/NEWS: Mention the floating point reader changes (bug#48678).
This commit is contained in:
Lars Ingebrigtsen 2021-05-29 08:02:10 +02:00
parent 2ee7e8a129
commit 2e1510dd00
1 changed files with 7 additions and 0 deletions
Show stats Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

7
etc/NEWS
View file

@ -2496,6 +2496,13 @@ 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.
+++
** The 'lexical-binding' local variable is always enabled.
Previously, if 'enable-local-variables' was nil, a 'lexical-binding'