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I could imagine a fairly simple overload module to make all this work, and work transparently. It'd make runtime slower but if its really desired, its certainly possible.
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Re^3: locale savvy comma as decimal operator
by japhy (Canon) on May 25, 2005 at 23:57 UTC
    Except that commas and periods are used elsewhere in Perl. You'd have to enforce the user employ specific whitespace: 
    @array = (1,2,3,4);     # would be a syntax error, no?
@array = (1, 2, 3, 4);  # would be ok

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    You'd have to be very careful about the whole thing. I wouldn't even expect Perl 6 to have an easy I18N option about this (but I could be wrong, those Perl 6ers are tough bastards).
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      For some reason, I thought 1.234,56 would have been parsed as a literal and would be available to overload via %^H to muck with. I just imagined that. Sorry.
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        Dio, what is %^H? Supersearch turned up only this one node, and google ignores the punctuation.

        Can I learn about this via perldoc? Wis I had better perldoc magie... UPDATE: Duh, found it in perlvar.

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