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.