[perl #40823] [RFC] Win32 vs. the world - length for sprintf('%e') - what's right?

[Will Coleda via RT]

On Thu Feb 12 13:26:02 2009, coke wrote:
> On Tue Nov 14 20:25:53 2006, allison at perl.org wrote:
> > jerry gay wrote:
> > >>
> > > ick -- that feels wrong for parrot. we've always tried to make 
> parrot
> > > act in a consistent way across platforms wherever possible, so i'd
> > > rather see the fix in Parrot_sprintf rather than in t/op/sprintf.t.
> > 
> > For the record: we decided in the weekly meeting yesterday to go with 
> a 
> > platform-independent implementation with consistent behavior.
> > 
> > Allison
> > 
> 
> Can we document /what/ the implementation should look like so someone 
> can code it? I presume we're going for "the world", that is, don't print 
> the leading zeros.
> 
> We'll need todo tests for this also.

Migrated ticket to https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/1200; please direct followups there.

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Will "Coke" Coleda