Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:22:22 +0100, Alexander Schmolck wrote: > >> It seems to me that the right choice for thousands seperator is the >> apostrophe. > > You mean the character already used as a string delimiter?
Yup. No ambiguity or problem here; indeed unlike space seperation or '_' it would work straighforwardly as a syntax extension in pretty much any programming language I can think as well as end-user output (I think that writing e.g. 1'000'000 on a website would be perfectly acceptable; unlike 1_000_000). 'as -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
