Numeric read seems too strict

[David Feuer]

I noticed the other day that

readMaybe (fix ('a':)) :: Maybe Double

is an infinite loop. The problem is that the lexer doesn't know that it's
expected to lex a number. It just keeps scanning and scanning to get to the
end of the endless token. Shall we fix this?
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