MRAB: >'_': what if in the future we want to allow them in numbers for clarity?
Hettinger says it's hard (= requires too many changes) to do that and Python programs don't have big integer constants often enough, so probably that improvement will not see the light. In the meantime in a Python program of mine I have put a small bug, writing 1000000 instead of 10000000. Now in Python I write 10*1000*1000, because I try to learn from my bugs. In D I enjoy writing 10_000_000. ------------------------------- Steven D'Aprano: > In D, at least some people want to follow Python's lead and either drop > support for oct literals completely, or require a 0o > prefix:http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2656 Yes, people in the D community are trying to improve things, but it's a slow and painful process, and often it goes nowhere. There's lot of politics. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
