Re: How to extract a floating point number locale-independantly

[Daurnimator <quae@...>]

On 26 April 2016 at 23:46, Daurnimator <quae@daurnimator.com> wrote:
>> Two is dubious; this "fix" may affect people that count on this
>> behavior.
>
> I do agree others might be relying on this. This may mean it can't be
> fixed until 5.4.

I'm pondering if this is okay to make it into a "bugfix" release:

For:
  - the documented behaviour is closer to the new behaviour than the
current behaviour
  - luajit embeds it's own strtod that doesn't care about the locale;
and hence has the proposed behaviour already.
  - fix existing code that is currently broken in non-C locales

Against:
  - lua will have a new deficiency: no way to parse a number in the
current locale.
  - could break existing code