[Chicken-janitors] #888: irregex: SRE utility pattern 'real does not match negative numbers

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#888: irregex: SRE utility pattern 'real does not match negative numbers
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 Reporter:  iraikov         |       Owner:       
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new  
 Priority:  major           |   Milestone:  4.8.0
Component:  core libraries  |     Version:  4.7.x
 Keywords:                  |  
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 It seems that using irregex's built-in pattern for real numbers does not
 accept negative numbers:

 (irregex-match 'real "-2.4") -> #f

 (irregex-extract 'real "-2.4") -> ("2.4")

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Ticket URL: <http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/888>
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