Rough draft: Proposed format specifier for a thousands separator

[John Nagle]

Lie Ryan wrote:
> Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
>> "Ulrich Eckhardt" <eck...aser.com> wrote:

>> Look back in history, and see how COBOL did it with the
>> PICTURE - dead easy and easily understandable.
>> Compared to that, even the C printf stuff  and python's %
>> are incomprehensible.
>>
>> - Hendrik

    Yes.  In COBOL, one writes

	PICTURE $999,999,999.99

which is is way ahead of most of the later approaches.

					John Nagle