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From: Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@inria.fr>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Locale bikeshed time
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 11:06:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1406365616.6438.98.camel@eris.loria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140726080327.GJ4038@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

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Am Samstag, den 26.07.2014, 04:03 -0400 schrieb Rich Felker:
> The problem is that the vast majority of actual printing and parsing
> of floating point numbers is for interchange purposes, not mere visual
> pretty-printing,

do you have statistics that support that claim?

printing that is really concerned in interchange, should just use the
%a formats. All other formats are intended for human readability.

> This goes back to the question about modern versus old tradition.
> Alternate radix points are a cultural convention that's (seemingly,
> hopefully) on the way out due to computers and information
> interchange. Maybe in some sense this is cultural imperialism (or just
> globalization or whatnot)

+1 for imperialism

Jens

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-26  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-22 18:49 Rich Felker
2014-07-22 20:10 ` u-igbb
2014-07-22 20:35   ` Rich Felker
2014-07-23  9:50     ` u-igbb
2014-07-23 16:39       ` Rich Felker
2014-07-23 19:25         ` u-igbb
2014-07-23 21:01           ` Rich Felker
2014-07-24 15:35             ` u-igbb
2014-07-24 16:01               ` Rich Felker
2014-07-24 19:24                 ` u-igbb
2014-07-24 20:15                 ` u-igbb
2014-07-24 22:02                   ` Rich Felker
2014-07-25  9:06                     ` u-igbb
2014-07-25 20:15                       ` u-igbb
2014-07-25 22:32                         ` Rich Felker
2014-07-26  7:25                           ` u-igbb
2014-07-26  8:03                             ` Rich Felker
2014-07-26  9:06                               ` Jens Gustedt [this message]
2014-07-26  9:25                                 ` Rich Felker
2014-07-26  9:38                               ` u-igbb
2014-07-26 17:47                                 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2014-07-26 18:23                                   ` Rich Felker
2014-07-26 18:59                                     ` u-igbb
2014-07-26 19:14                                       ` Rich Felker
2014-07-26 18:56                                   ` u-igbb
2014-07-26 19:30                                     ` Rich Felker
2014-07-27  7:28                                       ` u-igbb
2014-07-26 20:43                         ` Rich Felker
2014-07-27  7:51                           ` u-igbb
2014-07-27  8:00                             ` Rich Felker
2014-07-27  8:24                               ` u-igbb
2014-07-23 23:22         ` writeonce
2014-07-23 23:38           ` Rich Felker
2014-07-24  1:07             ` writeonce
2014-07-24  1:57               ` Rich Felker
2014-07-24  2:16                 ` writeonce
2014-07-24  2:24                   ` Rich Felker
2014-07-24  2:59                     ` writeonce
2014-07-22 20:17 ` Laurent Bercot
2014-07-22 20:36   ` Rich Felker
2014-07-23 22:03     ` Laurent Bercot
2014-07-23 22:12       ` Rich Felker
2014-07-24 15:38         ` u-igbb

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