Numeric literal syntax (was: Py 2.6 changes)
Nick Craig-Wood
nick at craig-wood.com
Tue Sep 2 07:35:41 EDT 2008
bearophileHUGS at lycos.com <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> Ben Finney:
> > I don't see any good reason (other than your familiarity with the D
> > language) to use underscores for this purpose, and much more reason
> > (readability, consistency, fewer arbitrary differences in syntax,
> > perhaps simpler implementation) to use whitespace just as with string
> > literals.
>
> It's not just my familiarity, Ada language too uses underscore for
> that purpose, I think, so there's a precedent, and Ada is a language
> designed to always minimize programming errors, simple code mistakes
> too.
And perl also
*ducks*
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