From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: PATCH: math and locale
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 08:17:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <991122081713.ZM18376@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19991121131432.C31314@dman.com>
On Nov 21, 1:14pm, Clint Adams wrote:
} Subject: Re: PATCH: math and locale
}
} > I'm mildly concerned that setting and restoring the locale is an excessive
} > overhead, especially if it's a no-op (prev_local is already "POSIX" or "C").
} > Can anyone reassure me?
}
} I see that the setlocale code is a bit meatier than I would have expected.
I am mostly concerned about things like re-opening (or worse, reading) of
external locale-definition files.
} I'm also beginning to wonder if prev_locale won't get clobbered somehow.
Oo, ick.
} > I also wonder whether "C" would not be a better choice than "POSIX" here.
}
} On sheer byte count or by some other criterion?
(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.
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 ...)
Where *exactly* would LC_NUMERIC make any difference in pws-9 ?
--
Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-11-22 8:17 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 [this message]
1999-11-22 14:42 ` Clint Adams
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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