Re^2: please explain print/say behavior with setlocale

This is where I got stuck. Why

$n = 1 / 2;
print $n . "\n";   # 0,5

 is different to

print 1/2 ."\n";   # 0.5
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Re^3: please explain print/say behavior with setlocale by almut (Canon) on Mar 30, 2010 at 11:59 UTC
See my update as to compile-time vs. run-time. IOW, when you write `BEGIN { setlocale LC_NUMERIC, "german"; } $n = 1 / 2; print $n . "\n"; # 0,5 print 1/2 ."\n"; # 0,5` [download] you get localized output in both cases, because localization is already in effect at compile-time.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: please explain print/say behavior with setlocale by wwe (Friar) on Mar 30, 2010 at 12:11 UTC
Using BEGIN block is very cool solution for this problem. Thank you very much. Would you say missing German localization without a BEGIN block is a bug or intended behavior for advanced usage?	[reply]