[Haskell-cafe] Float instance of 'read'

Bryan O'Sullivan bos at serpentine.com
Tue Sep 16 18:33:24 EDT 2008


On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Mauricio <briqueabraque at yahoo.com> 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")?


No, as read is really intended to be a language-level tool, not something
that you should expose to end users. For locale-aware number input and
formatting, you'd want to do something else.
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