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From: antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch)
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 12:39:22 -0000 (UTC)
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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:
> antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) writes:
> [...]
>> People should know language they use.  The whole point of using
>> a different language is because of some special features.  So
>> one should know them.
> [...]
>> Whitespace actually may be quite good list separator.  But using
>> commas in numbers is too confusing, there are too many conventions
>> used when printing numbers.  My favorite is underscore for grouping,
>> 1_000.005 has only one sensible meaning, while 1.000,005 and 1,000.005
>> can be easily confused.
> 
> People should know the language they use.

Unlike other parts of language number formatting have tendency to
leak to people different than developers.

-- 
                              Waldek Hebisch