Re^3: locale savvy comma as decimal operator

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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Re^4: locale savvy comma as decimal operator by diotalevi (Canon) on May 26, 2005 at 00:07 UTC
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.	[reply]
Re^5: locale savvy comma as decimal operator by tphyahoo (Vicar) on May 26, 2005 at 08:14 UTC
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.	[reply]
Re^6: locale savvy comma as decimal operator by diotalevi (Canon) on May 26, 2005 at 08:16 UTC
You'll need to read the perl source to understand what %^H does. Look for constants with HINT in the name.	[reply]