Re: commas

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Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> writes:

> I believe Java 7 has that capability, sort of.
>
> Instead of "," you use "_", but the idea is the same, grouping digits
>
> int x = 5_000_000;
>
> equivalent to
>
> int x = 5000000;
>
> Honestly, I think this should be a function of the editor, and not the
> language itself, but I haven't seen an IDE that abstracts the
> programming language that extensively but remains useful.

Emacs has "glasses" mode, described as:

    Glasses minor mode makes `unreadableIdentifiersLikeThis' readable by
    altering the way they display.  It knows two different ways to do this:
    by displaying underscores between a lower-case letter and the following
    capital letter, and by emboldening the capital letters.  It does not
    alter the buffer text, only the way they display, so you can use it
    even on read-only buffers.  You can use the command `M-x glasses-mode'
    to enable or disable the mode in the current buffer; you can also add
    `glasses-mode' to the mode hook of the programming language major modes
    in which you normally want to use Glasses mode.

I guess that it would be a minor modification to this mode to
make it also display underscores as part of numbers.

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  Re: commas Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-12 09:16 -0500
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    Re: commas Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-06-12 16:14 +0100
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    Re: commas Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-06-12 17:10 +0100
  Re: commas Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-06-12 09:32 -0700
    Re: commas Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> - 2012-06-12 09:54 -0700
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      Re: commas Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-06-12 11:51 -0700
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          Re: commas Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-06-12 16:28 -0700
  Re: commas Thad Smith <ThadSmith@acm.org> - 2012-06-17 22:38 -0600
    Re: commas Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-18 00:02 -0500
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