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Why the first line below gives error although the second and third lines work fine?
1.toString(); // SyntaxError
(1).toString(); // OK
1['toString'](); // OK
The parser is trying to treat
1.as the start of a floating-point literal — onlytoStringturns it into an invalid number.Compare with: