[perl #108378] Referring to floating $x under locale changes its string representation

On Mon Jan 16 11:04:04 2012, public@khwilliamson.com wrote:
> 
> This is a bug report for perl from khw@karl.(none),
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.15.6.
> 
> 
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> In lib/locale.t $x is set to 1.23 and then used on the rhs of various
> expressions without changing it.  If this happens in a locale in which
> the radix character is say a comma, "$x" gets changed to 1,23, even
> though $x was never explicitly modified.  Then, when "$x" is referred
> to
> in a scope without locale, the comma is retained, potentially screwing
> things up.  Thus for example, '$e = "$x"' gives $e a comma and $e is
> considered to be non-numeric. Saying instead '$e = $x' does make $e
> numeric.

I think that is why $# was deprecated and removed.  It breaks number <->
string equivalence.

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Father Chrysostomos


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