Re: Digit separators for numeric literals
| From: | Christoph Becker | Date: | Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:07:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Digit separators for numeric literals | ||
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Nikita Nefedov wrote:
> 2015-02-19 6:44 GMT+04:00 Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>:
>>
>> I think it will be difficult to find a separator character that doesn't
>> make a mess of the grammar.
>
> Why not space? It's certainly possible (I just checked) and it would look
> clear I guess:
>
> my_func(1 999 999);
By the same reasoning spaces could be allowed for identifiers as well, e.g.
my func(1 999 999);
Too confusing and error prone, IMHO.
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Christoph M. Becker