Numeric literal syntax

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-09-03, Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Another reason in support of spaces (rather than underscores) to
> separate digit groups: it's the only separator that follows the SI
> standard for representing numbers:
>
>     ??? for numbers with many digits the digits may be divided into
>     groups of three by a thin space, in order to facilitate reading.
>     Neither dots nor commas are inserted in the spaces between groups
>     of three.

But my keyboard doesn't _have_ a thin-space key!

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