Re: tonumber metamethod?

[David Given <dg@...>]

Dave Dodge wrote:
[...]
> If you mean that the setlocale function is not part of ANSI C, I think
> it's been included in the standard since C89.  However the only
> defined locale names are "C" (the default) and "" (native
> environment).  Other locale names would be implementation-defined.

And you really *don't* want anything locale-related when doing anything 
other than manipulating human-readable text! At my day job, I once wrote 
a disassembler generator in awk. Worked fine on some of our build 
machines and failed on others. It eventually turned out that the Debian 
machines had a default locale of "C" (ASCII sort order) and the Red Hat 
machines had a default locale of "en_GB" (case-insensitive sort order). 
Not fun...

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David Given
dg@cowlark.com