Mauricio wrote:
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.
That would be quite problematic in combination with lists, is
read "[1,2,3,4]" == [1,2,3,4]
or
read "[1,2,3,4]" == [1.2, 3.4]
Or something else?
Localized reading should be somewhere else, perhaps related to Locales.
As an aside, this is one of the (many) places where Haskell has made the right
choice. In other languages such as Java input functions suddenly break when the
user has a different locale setting. While for user input this might be desired,
in my experience much of the i/o a program does is with well defined file
formats where changing '.' to ',' just shouldn't happen.
Twan
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