Proposal: Improve Read Integer

[Yitzchak Gale]

Ian Lynagh wrote:
> Proposal: Improve Read Integer
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4500
> Currently, according to H98, H2010, GHC and hugs,
>    reads "1.2" :: [(Integer, String)]
> is
>    []
> whereas I would expect it to be
>    [(1,".2")]
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/ticket/4500/read-integer.dpatch

This is a good change. But for GHC the patch is not complete.
It needs to provide the old behavior in H98 and H2010 mode.

Thanks,
Yitz