Number literals (Was: Re: Case Range Statement ..)

[Walter Bright]

Rainer Deyke wrote:
> Never mind if any of these
> token sequences are syntactically valid, this is a mess at the lexical
> level.  If '0.....wyda' is interpreted as the token sequence '0. ... .
> wyda', then you have bigger things to worry about than whether or not
> that token sequence is ever syntactically valid.

Back in the 80's, there was some n.g. discussion about what x++++y meant 
and how it was lexed and parsed. The best answer was:

"Here a plus, there a plus, everywhere a plus plus."