Jeff Hobbs wrote:
> I was hasty in saying that would work. The issue is that in the layers
> that Tcl uses, some explicitly check for '.', but in the end you usually
> just call the system strtod. Thus if you change locale, it will break
> at the bottom level, but you can't work with other locale's because Tcl
> is explicitly expecting "C" locale math (this is not a bug).
>
> Perhaps, in the scheme of things, Tcl should never allow for strtod to
> be the system version. There are other potential pitfalls than just
> that function in modifying the locale though, so it would only be part
> of a solution.
>
> Jeff
>
> > expr 12,0 + 1 returns the same error.
> ...
> > On Monday 17 February 2003 18:44, you wrote:
> > > > My aolserver returns an error when I do e. g. a [expr 12.0 + 1].
> > > > [expr 12 + 1] works fine. The log says: syntax error in expression
> "12.0
> > > > + 1". It seems that it can't handle floats anymore. As soon as there
> is a
> > > > decimal it returns the error.
> > >
> > > As you are somewhere in Europe, you can get locale-sensitive.
> > > Tcl explicitly sets LC_NUM to "C" locale (American) so that
> > > numbers like "12.0" can be used always, not "12,0" as would be
> > > "European". Some other extension may be modifying your locale,
> > > which it shouldn't. You can easily test this assumption by
> > > trying "12,0" in the expr above.
