Re: zcalc bug

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Matthias Kopfermann wrote:
> one last thing that i am not sure about.
> I am quite sure it's not that easy but still a bit
> confusing:
> 
> with LC_NUMERIC=de_DE  zcalc
> 
> i get floating point shown as something like
> `44,2'  , because Germany has "," instead of ".".
> 
> But i cannot use 3*4,2 to calculate.
> A mixture of both seems quite peculiar to me.

Yes, it's a nuisance: that's because zsh does it's own scanning.

It's not that easy to fix.  Consider:

% print $(( 3,4 ))
4

The standard comma operator is specifically defined for math mode, and
whitespace is not significant.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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