From: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: PATCH: math and locale
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 09:42:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19991122094238.A5609@dman.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <991122081713.ZM18376@candle.brasslantern.com>; from schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com on Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 08:17:13AM +0000
> I am mostly concerned about things like re-opening (or worse, reading) of
> external locale-definition files.
So if the locale is "C" or "POSIX" don't make the second setlocale
call. Or is there a better solution?
> (1) That it's more likely to be supported correctly, and (2) that it is
> after all C-like expression parsing that math.c is attempting to peform.
Fair enough.
> It further occurs to me that it might be bad even to have output formatting
> controlled by LC_NUMERIC, given the tendency of scripts to do things like
>
> eval $(print ...)
Yes. I thought we were going to implement options/flags to control
such output.
> Where *exactly* would LC_NUMERIC make any difference in pws-9 ?
Anywhere LC_ALL would, except for zzlex now. What are you asking?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-11-22 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-20 20:18 Clint Adams
1999-11-20 20:53 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-11-21 18:14 ` Clint Adams
1999-11-22 8:17 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-11-22 14:42 ` Clint Adams [this message]
1999-11-22 18:23 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-11-22 19:36 ` Clint Adams
1999-11-22 20:03 ` Zefram
1999-11-23 18:18 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-11-26 22:08 ` Peter Stephenson
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