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From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Continuations
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:43:07 -0000 (UTC)
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Stephen Fuld <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> schrieb:
> Thomas Koenig wrote:
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>> 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 :-)
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> 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?

It does not, you would have to roll your own.
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