Printing numbers with underscores Lassi Kortela (19 Apr 2019 14:16 UTC)
Re: Printing numbers with underscores John Cowan (19 Apr 2019 14:39 UTC)
Re: Printing numbers with underscores Lassi Kortela (19 Apr 2019 15:27 UTC)
Re: Printing numbers with underscores John Cowan (19 Apr 2019 19:06 UTC)
Re: Printing numbers with underscores Lassi Kortela (19 Apr 2019 21:33 UTC)
Re: Printing numbers with underscores Lassi Kortela (19 Apr 2019 21:48 UTC)

Re: Printing numbers with underscores Lassi Kortela 19 Apr 2019 21:48 UTC

> Another option is if the implementation can check whether an output port
> is an interactive one, and always print underscores in that case. On
> Unix, isatty(stdout) might be a good enough check.

OTOH maybe that's too much magic behavior.

Is there a precedent for having some kind of special
(implementation-defined) print procedure designed specifically for the
REPL? Such a procedure could have some settings into which a toggle for
underscores could be added.