string:to_float/1 behavior

[Alexey Romanov]

1) Where can I find its source? It isn't defined in
lib/stdlib-1.17.1/src/string.erl. I thought it must be a BIF, but "ack
to_float /usr/local/lib/erlang/" doesn't seem to find anything
relevant. The full output is at https://gist.github.com/776256, but 1)
the only C function found is in
lib/erl_interface-3.7.1/src/legacy/erl_marshal.c; 2) the Erlang code
doesn't seem to define any mapping for this name.

2) The reason I went looking for its code is to check whether it is
guaranteed to deal with both "." and "," as decimal separators,
independent of locale? It does on my machine (with
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8") but the string module documentation doesn't
say anything.

Yours, Alexey Romanov