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

On Sun Jun 16 17:40:05 2013, jkeenan wrote:
> On Mon Jun 10 15:00:45 2013, perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org wrote:
> > * Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com> [2013-06-10T04:07:32]
> > >
> > > Sorry, it was my incomplete reading of perllocale.pod that led me to
> > > believe that only printf() would follow the current locale. After
> > > re-reading it, I find the documentation self-contradictory:
> > > [...]
> > 
> > ...and sorry about my reply, to which you're replying, as it was late
> > to the
> > game and you'd already covered this ground.  I had not fully caught up
> > in the
> > thread when I wrote it.
> 
> 
> Is this the same problem as
> https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=82418 ?

No, I don’t think so.  That one has to do with constant folding, and
whether the number will be stringified at compile time or run time.

-- 

Father Chrysostomos


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• [perl #108378] Referring to floating $x under locale changes its string representation by Karl Williamson via RT
• [perl #108378] Referring to floating $x under locale changes its string representation by James E Keenan via RT
• [perl #108378] Referring to floating $x under locale changes its string representation by Father Chrysostomos via RT
• Re: [perl #108378] Referring to floating $x under locale changesits string representation by Karl Williamson