On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 10:40 AM Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io> wrote:
 
Wow, how do you manage to follow so many language communities in such
detail?

I simply googled ["underscore" "numeric literal"] and saw what came up.
In particular, there is a page at hyperpolyglot.org which compares the
numeric literals of many languages.
 
Comma-separated numbers are a minor disaster in any international
community since no-one can figure out where to use commas and where to
use periods and if there is even a difference...

Cobol has a declaration "DECIMAL POINT IS COMMA" which swaps
the interpretation of commas and periods in numeric literals and
format strings (which are always literals), but not in I/O operations.
 
Does that imply we can go on with the current underscores proposal, and
then take that fact into account when/if a units-of-measure proposal is
made in the future?

Yes.

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