Steven D'Aprano wrote: > That's a tad unfair. Dealing with numeric literals with lots of digits is > a real (if not earth-shattering) human interface problem: it is hard for > people to parse long numeric strings. In the wider world outside of IT, > people deal with long numeric digits by grouping. This is *exceedingly* > common: mathematicians do it, economists do it, everybody who handles long > numeric literals does it *except* computer language designers. However, what is the percentage of these big number literals appears in source code ? I believe most of them either appears in some data file(thus is nothing but string) or during data input(again string). Why change the language when we just want a smarter string converter ?
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