`ExponentPart` after `HexIntegerLiteral`

[Yusuke Suzuki]

Hello,

0xFFe2 is valid HexIntegerLiteral, because 'e' and '2' is one of the hex
digit.
So I think it is OK.

0xFFe2 // 65506
0xFFe3 // 65507

Thanks.

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Mathias Bynens <mathias at qiwi.be> wrote:

> The spec grammar for `HexIntegerLiteral` is as follows:
> http://es5.github.com/x7.html#x7.8.3
>
> HexIntegerLiteral ::
>    0x HexDigit
>    0X HexDigit
>    HexIntegerLiteral HexDigit
>
> HexDigit :: one of
>    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f A B C D E F
>
> Note that no `ExponentPart` seems to be allowed here.
>
> However, a lot of engines seem to support exponents after hex integer
> literals:
>
>    255; // 255
>    0xFF; // 255
>    255e2; // 25500
>    0xFFe2; // 65506
>
> I couldn’t find this in the spec though. Is this defined anywhere? Is
> this expected behavior or not?
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