[Haskell-cafe] Float instance of 'read'

Tilo Wiklund noteventime at gmail.com
Tue Sep 16 16:19:31 EDT 2008


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
> 
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