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On 03/24/2014 09:34 AM, Zefram wrote: > Ricardo Signes wrote: >> >6. Gconvert() obeys LC_NUMERIC without "use locale" >> > https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121317 > Gconvert() should return to its former visible behaviour, and it should > be deprecated. There should be*two* new macros to replace it, one of > each behaviour, and they should be properly documented in perlapi(1). > ppport.h can make the new macros available on older perls. > This sounds reasonable to me at first blush, but note there are some complications. First, Gconvert didn't change. What changed was that LC_NUMERIC now inherits from the environment. I would revert that, adding documentation. Thus other functions are affected. One that I had missed in my earlier investigation is localeconv(). But also strtol() and strtoul(), although it's a very rare locale that would make a difference to these. And my_sprintf(), my_snprintf(), and my_vsnprintf(). The behavior of all these would go back to what it was in 5.18. That's not a bad thing, just something to be aware of. Also Gconvert is a macro generated by Configure. If we wish to raise a deprecated warning at its first use, we would have to turn it into an (hopefully inline) function. I can't think of a way to do this without changing Configure.Thread Previous | Thread Next