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

[Daurnimator <quae@...>]

On 29 April 2016 at 01:56, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> Maybe a nice compromisse would be to accept both the locale point and
> dots everywhere, except in the lexer.
>
> (Just for the record, "everywhere" means coercions from strings
> to numbers, 'tonumber', 'io.read("n")', and 'lua_stringtonumber'.)
>
> -- Roberto

Sounds fair for 5.3.3.

For 5.4 I think you should move to using strtod_l and friends.