Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Stephen Fuld" Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Continuations Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 13:35:33 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <47689j5gbdg2runh3t7oq2thodmfkalno6@4ax.com> <116d9j5651mtjmq4bkjaheuf0pgpu6p0m8@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:35:34 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="be35471260d2297244cbe7c6c580570f"; logging-data="2571948"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1835y0vxq5f75qrdqpgbTrCjL/MLSLpT+M=" User-Agent: XanaNews/1.21-f3fb89f (x86; Portable ISpell) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CKfWogCfRLY6bWEkS9HOKoFcs1o= Bytes: 2172 Thomas Koenig wrote: > Stephen Fuld schrieb: > > There are two separate issues here. One is whether modern languages > > should have syntax for esily formatting numbers that is "more > > expressive" than what things like printf currently provide. > > Take a look at what Fortran can do, it does quite a few things > (and is correspondingly difficult to implement :-) I used to write a fair amount of Fortran, but haven't recently. While it does have a lot of functionality (most of which I never had occasion to use). But it at least didn't have support for my pet peeve, the separator character (whatever one is used) every three digits. This really improves readability for numbers with lots of digits. Does it now support this? -- - Stephen Fuld (e-mail address disguised to prevent spam)