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 Lassi Kortela 12 Apr 2019 19:46 UTC

>     The question is, does it interfere with symbols if it's supported
>     without the #d prefix (e.g. 1_000_000).
>
> Not really.  RnRS doesn't allow symbols to begin with numeric digits
> (unless it is escaped), so it won't conflict.
> Gauche treating them as symbols is just an artifact of old Lisp
> convention, which is "word that can't be parsed as numbers are
> symbols"---besides, I was rather conservative to introduce "underscores
> in numbers" feature.  If we establish that convention I'll adapt Gauche
> to it.

That's great news :) It's good to have your opinion since you have
actually implemented the syntax.