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 -- :: INRIA Nancy Grand Est ::: AlGorille ::: ICube/ICPS ::: :: ::::::::::::::: office Strasbourg : +33 368854536 :: :: :::::::::::::::::::::: gsm France : +33 651400183 :: :: ::::::::::::::: gsm international : +49 15737185122 :: :: http://icube-icps.unistra.fr/index.php/Jens_Gustedt ::