In comp.lang.python James Harris <james.harri...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 22 Aug, 10:27, David <71da...@libero.it> wrote:
... >> >> What about 2_1011, 8_7621, 16_c26h or 2;1011, 8;7621, 16;c26h ? > > They look good - which is important. The trouble (for me) is that I > want the notation for a new programming language and already use these > characters. I have underscore as an optional separator for groups of > digits - 123000 and 123_000 mean the same. Why not just use the space? 123 000 looks better than 123_000, and is not syntactically ambiguous (at least in python). And as it already works for string literals, it could be applied to numbers, too… -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabík http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list