
    <h3 id="when-do-i-get-this-error-">When do I get this error?</h3>
<p>The "A dot following a number can be confused with a decimal point" error is
thrown when JSHint encounters <strong>a numeric literal containing a decimal point as
the left-hand-side of a member expression</strong>. In the following example we attempt
to assign the string representation of a number to a variable:</p>
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