On Thursday, 7 March 2013 at 06:31:39 UTC, Simen Kjærås wrote:
On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:06:42 +0100, ixid <[email protected]>
wrote:
The underscores in values such as 1_000_000 aid readability
but DMD doesn't see anything wrong with any placement of
underscores as long as they follow a number. Is there any
reason to allow uses like 1_00_000, which are typos or
exceedingly lazy modifications of value, and not enforce
digits to form sets of three after the first underscore?
In addition to the examples given by Simen and Adam, China and
Japan place digits in groups of 4 (10 0000 0000), while India
uses groups of 2 (10 00 00 00).
Seems enforcing underscores to a particular number would be a
bad thing. Unless you could specify the width of them so it would
do a side check to confirm it fits a particular format, but it
would then clutter the code perhaps?? Hmmm..
However using underscores it's less likely to make silly
mistakes since you mentally can count and tell the groups are in
2's, 3's, 4's or 5's fairly easily.
