Underscores in numbers for legibility Lassi Kortela (12 Apr 2019 18:54 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Arthur A. Gleckler (12 Apr 2019 19:02 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Lassi Kortela (12 Apr 2019 19:08 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Shiro Kawai (12 Apr 2019 19:33 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Lassi Kortela (12 Apr 2019 19:46 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Peter Bex (12 Apr 2019 19:55 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Lassi Kortela (12 Apr 2019 20:01 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Peter Bex (12 Apr 2019 20:08 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Arthur A. Gleckler (12 Apr 2019 20:15 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Lassi Kortela (12 Apr 2019 20:23 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Lassi Kortela (12 Apr 2019 22:17 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility John Cowan (12 Apr 2019 22:28 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Jim Rees (13 Apr 2019 00:04 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Arthur A. Gleckler (13 Apr 2019 00:10 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility John Cowan (13 Apr 2019 03:14 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Lassi Kortela (13 Apr 2019 07:27 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility John Cowan (13 Apr 2019 13:52 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Arthur A. Gleckler (13 Apr 2019 14:26 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Lassi Kortela (13 Apr 2019 14:40 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility John Cowan (13 Apr 2019 15:27 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Peter Bex (13 Apr 2019 19:37 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility John Cowan (13 Apr 2019 19:47 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Lassi Kortela (15 Apr 2019 09:32 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Arthur A. Gleckler (15 Apr 2019 14:33 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Lassi Kortela (15 Apr 2019 15:18 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Arthur A. Gleckler (15 Apr 2019 15:49 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Lassi Kortela (15 Apr 2019 20:16 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Lassi Kortela (13 Apr 2019 19:53 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Per Bothner (13 Apr 2019 16:01 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Lassi Kortela (13 Apr 2019 16:10 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Per Bothner (12 Apr 2019 19:41 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Lassi Kortela (12 Apr 2019 19:47 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Per Bothner (12 Apr 2019 20:27 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Lassi Kortela (12 Apr 2019 21:07 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility John Cowan (12 Apr 2019 21:53 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Lassi Kortela (12 Apr 2019 22:37 UTC)
Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Per Bothner (13 Apr 2019 16:23 UTC)

Re: Underscores in numbers for legibility Per Bothner 12 Apr 2019 19:41 UTC

On 4/12/19 12:08 PM, Lassi Kortela wrote:
> The question is, does it interfere with symbols if it's supported without the #d prefix (e.g. 1_000_000). Since Gauche doesn't support that prefix-less notation I presume there is a problem. Still, even with the prefixes it's useful IMHO. Hex and binary can be hard to read, and #d for a long decimal number might be worth it. Opinions?

For what it is worth, it would be valid Common Lisp "potential number",
so in Common Lisp it would not conflict with a symbol.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node189.html

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