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

[Will Coleda via RT]

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.

-- 
Will "Coke" Coleda