On 06May2011 19:55, Calvin Spealman <ironfroggy@gmail.com> wrote: | I am +0 on the whole idea, but +0.5 if is not an underscore, which I | think is ugly. I think the underscore is one of the better choices: - it is very visible, unlike a dot or comma - it is "low" or "flat", not intruding into the glyph space of the digits, leaving things easy to read - it is already widely used (perl (sorry), Ada (where I first encountered it now that someone ele has mentioned it, etc) i.e. it is a pre-existing idom with successful use | Would it conflict with any other syntax rules if | numbers allowed a space separator? | | for i in range(1 111 111): | foo(i) | | It looks cleaner and in a fixed-font should be just as obvious about | separator placement. I'm very -1 on this one. Like another recent proposal it take a common typing error and turns it into legal syntax. Code that once would fail to compile because the author dropped a comma between values now runs, with silent breakage (the new stuff isn't even the wrong type!) Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers. :-) - Larry Wall regarding 10_000_000 in <11556@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>