For the record, OCaml does this too: # string_of_float((float_of_string "3_151_592_653") +. 1.0);; - : string = "3151592654."
Issac On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 11:15:32AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > perl is such a cool language. i never knew you can represent numbers > this way: > > my $number = 3_151_592_653; > print ++$number, "\n"; > > i can easily see that $number represents "three billion one hundred > fifty one million five hundred ninety two thousand six hundred fifty > three". if, instead, i saw: > > my $number = 3151592653; > print ++$number, "\n"; > > i'd be sitting there all day trying to figure out what this number is. > perl will balk if you use an underscore in anything other than groups of > three, as in: > > my $number = 3_151_592_53; > > jeez, for all the numerical stuff i do for research, i wish C had > something like this built in! > > pete > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
