Re: Parser use and abuse

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 10:59:32PM +0000, Jacques Gélinas wrote:
> After years of receiving warnings from the Pari/GP parser because of a typo,
> I finally got a pleasant surprise after typing a single dot on an input line:
> the parser returned the working precision (:-) !
> 
> # .
> %1 = 0.E-19

This is not the working precision, '.' is a short-hand for '0.'.
The only reason this is supported is that this was supported 
by PARI 1.39.15.

Cheers,
Bill.