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On Jul 24, 6:08 pm, Steven D'Aprano
<st... at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:09:00 +0200, Bjoern Schliessmann wrote:
> > Stargaming wrote:
> >> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:19:53 -0700, bearophileHUGS wrote:
>
> >>> While in a syntax like:
> >>> for i in xrange(1_000_000):
> >>> my eyes help me group them at once.
>
> >> Sounds like a good thing to be but the arbitrary positioning
> >> doesnt make any sense.
>
> > Checking underscore positions would only add complexity. Why not
> > just ignore them, no matter where they are?
>
> Underscores in numerics are UGLY. Why not take a leaf out of implicit
> string concatenation and allow numeric literals to implicitly concatenate?
>
> Python already does:
> "hello-" "world" => "hello-world"
>
> Propose:
> 123 456 789 => 123456789
> 123.456 789 => 123.456789

So, spaces will no longer be delimiters? Won't that cause
much wailing and gnashing of teeth?

>
> --
> Steven.