JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript

Re:JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript by wl on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @02:45PM (#14972343)

It's not a matter of geography. It's a matter of language. In English, a period acts as the radix point and a comma acts as a separator. It's a common error for people who learned English as a second language to use the convention of their native language when writing in English.

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Re:JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript by defined on Thursday August 10, 2017 @10:42PM (#14986213)

No, it's a matter of geography (or should I say locale). Raised in South Africa, we English speakers were taught to write "ten thousand and forty one-hundredths" as

    10.000,40

which is exactly the opposite of the US based

    10,000.40

So it's locale rather than language that determines this.

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