Re: Revive Number Format Separator RFC
| From: | Thomas Punt | Date: | Sat, 27 Apr 2019 11:18:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Revive Number Format Separator RFC | ||
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Hi!
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 4:30 PM Theodore Brown <theodorejb@outlook.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 6:10 AM Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not particularly against this proposal, but I'm not sure how often I'd
> > use it.
>
> How often you use numeric separators depends on what you are doing.
> I definitely agree that phone numbers and dates are not good use cases,
> and that there are usually better ways to write things like the number
> of seconds in a day or number of bytes in a gigabyte.
Storing dates in an integer format can be a valid use case if performance is a
concern. It is far faster and more compact to store and compare integer-based
dates than using objects for everything.
Anyway, if anyone would like to revive this RFC, then feel free to!
Thanks,
Tom