No, it is not. Strings created by show are
always supposed to be readable by read, no
matter which system used 'show' and which
system is using 'read'.
Maurício
Rafael C. de Almeida a écrit :
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).
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