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From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 05:09:21 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-04-03, bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
> On 02/04/2025 17:20, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>> Muttley@dastardlyhq.com writes:
>>> On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 16:33:46 +0100
>>> bart <bc@freeuk.com> gabbled:
>>>> On 02/04/2025 16:12, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
>>>>> Meh.
>>>>
>>>> What's the problem with it? Here, tell me at a glance the magnitude of
>>>> this number:
>>>>
>>>>      10000000000
>>>
>>> And how often do you hard code values that large into a program? Almost
>>> never I imagine unless its some hex value to set flags in a word.
>> 
>> Every day, several times a day. 16 hex digit constants are very
>> common in my work.  The digit separator really helps with readability,
>> although I would have preferred '_' over "'".
>
> Oh, I thought C23 used '_', since Python uses that. I prefer single 
> quote as that is not shifted on my keyboard. (My language projects just 
> allow both!)

I made , (comma) the digit separator in TXR Lisp. Nobody uses _ in the
real world.

I understand that in some countries, that is the decimal point.  That is
not relevant in programming languages that use a period for that and are
not localized.

Comma means I can just copy and paste a figure from a financial document
or application, or any other document which uses that convention.

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