- From: Zack Weinberg <zweinberg@mozilla.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:15:18 -0800
- To: fantasai <fantasai@inkedblade.net>, W3C Emailing list for WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>
As long as I'm close-reading the number syntax: Section 4.3.1 says
that 'Both integers and real numbers may be preceded by a "-" or "+" to
indicate a sign', but neither the section 4 forward-compatible
formal syntax nor the appendix G formal syntax permits a sign. Section
4 has
num [0-9]+|[0-9]*\.[0-9]+
and appendix G has
num [0-9]+|[0-9]*"."[0-9]+
Since the prose trumps the formal syntax, I think this is just an
editorial issue: both {num} macro definitions should read
num [+-]?[0-9]+|[0-9]*\.[0-9]+
(We may as well make them consistent with each other at the same time.)
zw
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