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On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 05:43, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Mike Pall <mikelu-1009@mike.de> wrote:
>>> 123,456,789.554433
>>
>> Nope, since strtod() doesn't handle that (in most locales).
>
> It would also be ambiguous - e.g return 123,233.2  - Lua syntax
> interprets this as returning two values.
>

By this logic even 123,456 is ambiguous in a locale that uses "," as a
decimal separator.
Looks like a can of worms:-)

--Leo--