Could you drop me a link to the discussion by chance? Seems this
feature is actually a reasonably common request :)
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Michael Jones <michael.jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I asked for this a while back ("drop underscore between digits as in Ada")
> and the answer was no. I try to ask just once.
>
> This was shut down without much discussion at
> https://github.com/golang/go/issues/42.
>
> I agree that it's a nice feature.
>
> By the way, though, one nice aspect of Go is that because of how
> untyped constants work you can write integers using scientific
> notation:
>
> for i := 0; i < 10e6; i++ {
> // ...
> }
>
> This is exactly the same as if you had written 10000000.
>
> (I don't think you'd want to do this in C or Java because, although it
> would "work", 10e6 is a floating point number and so i would be
> converted to a double for comparison. I am not an expert in those
> languages, though, so someone can correct if I'm wrong here.)
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Roger Pack <rogerpack2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I found recently when doing some language comparisons
>>
>> In a few other languages (ruby, java, etc.) underscores within numeric
>> literals to make them more readable, ex:
>>
>> 10_000_000.times do
>> ...
>> end
>>
>> go ex:
>>
>> for i := 0; i < 10000000; i++ {
>> ...
>> }
>>
>> I find it helps readability, and think it would be a nice addition to the
>> language (or some way to group digits, perhaps there already is one?).
>> Consider this a feature request (go 2.0 or what not).
>> Cheers.
>> -roger-
>>
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