Re: [Haskell-cafe] Float instance of 'read'

On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, 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.

Read/Show is intended for parsing and formatting of Haskell expressions. Anything different should use different functions.