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Float64 Literal Expression

Has the conventional meaning -- evaluates to the expressed IEEE double precision floating point value. As in Java, in E you can only express non-negative non-inifinite non-NaN values literally. All other values require other expressions. This should make no difference to the E programmer in practice.

Lexical Regex:	[0-9]+[.][0-9]*([eE][-]?[0-9]+) [0-9]+[eE][-]?[0-9]+ This is a subset of the syntax allowed for Java double precision floating point literals, in that neither a leading "." nor a trailing "d" or "D" are allowed.
XML DTD:	<!ELEMENT Float64 #PCDATA> Where the #PCDATA must conform to the above regex, and should be written as it appears in the source text.
Java:	All IEEE double precision numbers expressible as literals in Java are expressible as Float64Literals in E. An E Float64Literal translates to precisely the same text in Java, and will designate precisely the same IEEE double precision floating point value. Future versions of the E compiler should try to determine when it can use the scalar rather than widening it to a Double object. However, in the general case (and currently the only case), this will translate to new Double(double-literal)
Example:	2.3
in Kernel-E:	same
in XML:	<Float64>2.3</Float64>
in Java	new Double(2.3)