Re: [perl #84680] POSIX::isdigit() returns 1 for the empty string

* Steve Peters (steve@fisharerojo.org) [110225 04:05]:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Robert Lang <perlbug-followup@perl.org>wrote:
> > $ perl -MPOSIX -e 'print isdigit(""), "\n"'

> Thanks for the report.  I do have a fix ready for this, but before I commit
> this, this technically effects all the ifXXX() functions.  Also, in the
> ext/POSIX/t/posix.t we have...

The change in C is simple, of course, but it will break existing
implementations. This is a flaw in the docs, not in the code.
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Regards,
               MarkOv

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• [perl #84680] POSIX::isdigit() returns 1 for the empty string by Robert Lang
• Re: [perl #84680] POSIX::isdigit() returns 1 for the empty string by Steve Peters
• Re: [perl #84680] POSIX::isdigit() returns 1 for the empty string by Mark Overmeer
• Re: [perl #84680] POSIX::isdigit() returns 1 for the empty string by Steve Peters
• Re: [perl #84680] POSIX::isdigit() returns 1 for the empty string by Mark Overmeer
• Re: [perl #84680] POSIX::isdigit() returns 1 for the empty string by Mark Overmeer
• Re: [perl #84680] POSIX::isdigit() returns 1 for the empty string by Eric Brine