anner still works on both alternatives.
If the next character is again a &quot;.&quot; the &quot;..&quot; phrase
is pushed back to the input stream and a number is returned to the parser.
If the next character is not a &quot;.&quot;, the scanner continues with
the recognition of a real number. </P>

<P><B>Comments and ignorable characters.</B>
Usually spaces within the source text of a program are irrelevant, and in
scanning for the start of a token, a Coco/R generated scanner will simply
ignore them.  Othe