From: Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] u9fs and va_copy()
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:02:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409200902.i8K92Ig9000796@skeeve.com> (raw)
> I also have implementations of the
> POSIX %4$d stuff and %'d stuff, with plans for %'f. Joy.
It's a trip, ain't it? I did the %4$d stuff for gawk, which allows
i18n-ing an awk program. T'was a pain.
The %'d stuff isn't terrible, and I'm lucky that I can punt to sprintf
for %'f and the other floating point formats. (Quote, Let someone else
do the hard part, Unquote :-)
I have to wonder if the POSIX people got this stuff right. The recent
versions of gawk follow the POSIX standard, which says that floating
point numbers *in the text of the awk program* always use `.' for the
radix point, but use the locale's radix point for *input and output data*.
Fine and good, but I have gotten complaints from people in non-C locales
wondering why their data is no longer interpreted by gawk the way it
used to be...
This whole area is one where you're damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Whatever,
Arnold
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