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From: "Stephen Fuld" <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Continuations
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 13:35:33 -0000 (UTC)
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Thomas Koenig wrote:

> Stephen Fuld <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> 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?




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 - Stephen Fuld 
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