Reading numbers technicality

George Russell ger@tzi.de
Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:29:45 +0100 

I think
   main = putStrLn(show ((reads "123.")::[(Int,String)]))
should print [(123,".")] rather than [] as it does in Hugs (Feb2001).
As far as I can work out, from the rather tangled Haskell code in the
Prelude, Hugs is at fault, not the Prelude.  Glasgow Haskell 4.08.2 agrees
with me.

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