On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 07:52:22AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > That PR needed to be fixed, even before it was filed, as stray > characters after the numeric value are more likely to be something > attempting linux "sleep 2m" (ie: sleep 120) raher than someone > attempting to sleep for a currency value. And that does need > to be detected as an error, unlike "sleep 1,2" (or even sleep 0,2) > which does no real harm, even if it was an accident (we're > talking about a sleep of some extra fraction of a second...)
I'd argue that "300ms" or "120us" or "15ns" are all pretty unambiguous, and that an exactly two char suffix would be rather unlikely to be line noise.