On Jul 24, 10:10 am, Stargaming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:19:53 -0700, bearophileHUGS wrote: > > There are various things I like about the D language that I think Python > > too may enjoy. Here are few bits (mostly syntactical ones): > > > 1) (we have discussed part of this in the past) You can put underscores > > inside number literals, like 1_000_000, the compiler doesn't enforce the > > position of such underscores, so you can also put them like this: > > 1_00_000. You can put them in literals of decimals, binary, hex, etc. I > > think it's quite useful, because when in Python code I have a line like: > > for i in xrange(1000000): > > I need some time to count the zeros, because the lower levels of my > > visual systems can't count/group them quickly (perceptually). While in a > > syntax like: > > for i in xrange(1_000_000): > > my eyes help me group them at once. > > Sounds like a good thing to be but the arbitrary positioning doesnt make > any sense. Additionally, I'd suggest 10**n in such cases (eg. 10**6). >
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/04/17/577483.aspx Digits are grouped in 2s in India and in 4s in China and Japan. Regards, Leons Petrazickis http://lpetr.org/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
