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

* Frank Meyers via RT (perlbug-comment@perl.org) [130325 19:26]:
> $ python -c 'print "".isdigit()'
> False
> $ php -r 'var_dump(ctype_digit(""));'
> bool(false)
> $ perl -MPOSIX -e 'print isdigit(""), "\n"'
> 1
> $ 
> 
> WTF?

Yes, the documentation is flawed in many ways.  New documentation
is waiting for acceptance.

The actual implementations is: "true if all bytes are digits in
ASCII".  Useless function, and true with zero characters.
-- 
Regards,

               MarkOv

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• [perl #84680] POSIX::isdigit() returns 1 for the empty string by Frank Meyers via RT
• 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 Ricardo Signes
• Re: [perl #84680] POSIX::isdigit() returns 1 for the empty string by Mark Overmeer