Re: lujit - Malformed number

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 16:50, Leo Razoumov <slonik.az@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:-)

Oops! My serialization code will generate ambigious output then? No, thanks!

Programming language syntax should not be dependent on the locale.
Implementation problems are a poor excuse...

Alexander.