read-ing scientific notation

[Amanda Clare]

GHC is oddly particular about decimal points in "read"-ing in of Doubles
in scientific notation. It seems that read "3.0e-06" is acceptable but
read "3e-06" is not (both read "3" and read "3.0" work fine as Doubles).
It's the same in nhc and hugs. Perhaps this is some standard somewhere
that Perl doesn't understand?

[ajc99 at pcburum yeast]$ perl -e "print 6.0e-06;"
6e-06       

Amanda
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