Locale-specific numbers

One of our channel members mentioned a failure in parsing “-1” to an int given a Locale. That’s … fascinating, actually, as I (dreamreal) was unaware of any numbering systems under which that would fail. So, as any programmer would, I wanted a program to show me the locales for which “-1” wasn’t the proper representation for “negative one.” Being a programmer, I … immediately ran to an AI (Claude, specifically) and had it generate...

Oct 28, 2025   —  5 minute(s) read