Mauricio wrote: > Hi, > > A small annoyance some users outside > english speaking countries usually > experiment when learning programming > languages is that real numbers use > a '.' instead of ','. Of course, that > is not such a problem except for the > inconsistence between computer and > free hand notation. > > Do you think 'read' (actually, > 'readsPrec'?) could be made to also > read the international convention > (ie., read "1,5" would also work > besides read "1.5")? I'm happy to > finaly use a language where I can > use words of my language to name > variables, so I wonder if we could > also make that step. >
Isn't it locale dependent? If it isn't, it should be. Try setting your locale right and see if things work. At least awk work fine that way. Although I don't like too much that kinda stuff, I usually set the locale to C so I keep all my programs behaving consistently. I have problems with that stuff before (a file generated by an awk script had , instead of . and that would confuse other computers with a different locale). _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
