In Guile 1.8 it was possible to localise the effect of a setlocale
operation, but in Guile 2.0 it's no longer possible by natural use of the
locale API. This loss of a useful facility is either a bug or something
that needs to be discussed in the documentation.
In Guile 1.8 one could perform a
Greets :)
Firstly, just to make sure that we are getting things right in 2.2 (and
if not we need to know), would you mind testing with the latest 2.1.x
release?
Also, do you have a concrete program whose behavior you expect to be
different? I appreciate the call-with-locale example but I'm not
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Hi,
We observed the following with guile 2.0.11 -
scheme@(guile-user)> (define sym '912828S7912810RS)
While reading expression:
ERROR: In procedure string->number: Value out of range: 7912810
Is this expected? Do we need to enable any read-options? If this is
expected,
Andy Wingo writes:
> Confirmed. I guess we could put this in libdir somehow. I wonder if we
> shouldn't take advantage of the opportunity to do something more
> sensible and extensible... the easy thing to do would be to just keep
> doing the same thing though.
I suppose for
Rob Browning writes:
> Andy Wingo writes:
>
>> Confirmed. I guess we could put this in libdir somehow. I wonder if we
>> shouldn't take advantage of the opportunity to do something more
>> sensible and extensible... the easy thing to do would be to just