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Re: CVS commit: src/bin/sleep



On 28.01.2019 01:52, Robert Elz wrote:
> The only question is whether there
> is any harm in also accepting the 0,2 form when ',' is the
> "decimal point".

In my perception yes. Such calls won't be portable and can stop to be
functional with tool upgrade/change. I have checked that some countries
use one or the other separator depending on region (like Canada).

There are also countries that might use different non-ASCII characters,
at least the Arabic ones (momayyez). Supporting 2-3+ styles is opening
Pandora's box; while this style in computer science has narrow use-case
(mostly finances).

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