On Sep 2, 6:35 am, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It's not just my familiarity, Ada language too uses underscore for
> > that purpose, I think, so there's a precedent, and Ada is a language
> > designed to always minimize programmin
On 02 Sep 2008 06:10:51 GMT, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> At the risk of bike-shedding,
[snip]
(startled noises) It is a delight to find a reference to
that half-century-old essay (High Finance) by the wonderful
C. Northcote Parkinson, but how many readers will catch the
allusion?
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ben Finney:
> > I don't see any good reason (other than your familiarity with the D
> > language) to use underscores for this purpose, and much more reason
> > (readability, consistency, fewer arbitrary differences in syntax,
> > perhaps simpler imple
On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:13:27 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>> For Python 2.7/3.1 I'd now like to write a PEP regarding the
>> underscores into the number literals, like: 0b_0101_, 268_435_456
>> etc.
>
> +1 on such a capability.
>
> -1 on underscore as the separator
Ben Finney:
> I don't see any good reason (other than your familiarity with the D
> language) to use underscores for this purpose, and much more reason
> (readability, consistency, fewer arbitrary differences in syntax,
> perhaps simpler implementation) to use whitespace just as with string
> liter
