Re: AI 2000-05-034: wording for strtod()

["Clive D.W. Feather" <yyyyy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ulrich Drepper said:
>> Thus proving once again that perl is broken. :-)
> It's not proving this.

Sheesh. It was a joke.

But, since you raise the topic, how *does* perl treat "1234" versus
"0x1234". Are you saying that the former is a float but the latter an
integer ? If so, I reckon it *is* broken.

> It's proving that the ISO C99 committee did a
> lousy job by introducing changes outside those the future directions
> described.  I didn't want to write this but you forced me.

Only if you can guarantee to be in the C locale. Outside that the
implementation is free to accept anything it likes with strtod.

It's true that this is a Quiet Change. That doesn't make it a "lousy job";
sometimes that is better than the alternatives.

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