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[Paddy]

On Jul 25, 1:47 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar>
wrote:
> En Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:10:53 -0300, Stargaming <stargam... at gmail.com>
> escribió:
>
> > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:19:53 -0700, bearophileHUGS wrote:
>
> >> There are various things I like about the D language that I think Python
> >> too may enjoy. Here are few bits (mostly syntactical ones):
>
> >> 1) (we have discussed part of this in the past) You can put underscores
> >> inside number literals, like 1_000_000, the compiler doesn't enforce the
> >> position of such underscores, so you can also put them like this:
> >> 1_00_000. You can put them in literals of decimals, binary, hex, etc. I
>
> > Sounds like a good thing to be but the arbitrary positioning doesnt make
> > any sense. Additionally, I'd suggest 10**n in such cases (eg. 10**6).
>
> Why not? Because in English major numbers are labeled in thousands?
> (thousand, million, billion...)
> In India, they're grouped by two after the first thousand; in China,
> they're grouped each 4 digits (that is, there is a single word for "ten
> thousands" = wan4 =  , and the next required word is for 10**8 = yi4 =  )
>
> --
> Gabriel Genellina

But then,what would _0 be, the number 0 or the name _0 analagous to
a0

- Pad.