Wouldn't that make it hard to parse lists of floats?
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 09:29 -0300, Mauricio wrote: > Hi, > > A small annoyance some users outside > english speaking countries usually > experiment when learning programming > languages is that real numbers use > a '.' instead of ','. Of course, that > is not such a problem except for the > inconsistence between computer and > free hand notation. > > Do you think 'read' (actually, > 'readsPrec'?) could be made to also > read the international convention > (ie., read "1,5" would also work > besides read "1.5")? I'm happy to > finaly use a language where I can > use words of my language to name > variables, so I wonder if we could > also make that step. > > Thanks, > Maurício > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
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