Re: commas

From	Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	comp.programming
Subject	Re: commas
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Date	2012-06-18 00:02 -0500

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On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 22:38:47 -0600, Thad Smith <ThadSmith@acm.org>
wrote:

>On 6/12/2012 8:09 AM, bob wrote:
>> Are there any languages where you can actually use commas in the numbers?
>>
>> So, instead of having to write:
>>
>> int x = 5000000;
>>
>> You could write:
>>
>> int x = 5,000,000;
>>
>> I think this could improve clarity a lot.
>
>I haven't used Fortran in decades, but my recollection is it allowed arbitrary 
>spaces to be embedded in source.  If that is still the case, you could write
>        x = 5 000 000

Indeed, mistyping:

  DO 100 I = 1, 10

with a period instead of a comma, would result in:

  DO100I = 1.10

Which, of course, doesn't loop as intended, implicitly declares a
variable called DO100I and assigns a value to it, and would typically
not produce any sort of diagnostic.  And when you're debugging a paper
listing, printed on low quality paper with a cheap, almost worn out,
ribbon, that was not easy to spot.

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commas bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-06-12 07:09 -0700
  Re: commas Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-12 09:16 -0500
    Re: commas BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-06-12 09:53 -0500
    Re: commas "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-06-12 16:33 +0100
  Re: commas Paul Herber <paul@pherber.com> - 2012-06-12 15:37 +0100
    Re: commas Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-06-12 16:14 +0100
  Re: commas "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-06-12 16:37 +0100
    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
    Re: commas "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-06-12 18:05 +0100
      Re: commas Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-06-12 11:51 -0700
        Re: commas "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-06-12 20:36 +0100
          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
      Re: commas blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2012-07-06 19:01 +0000
  Re: commas Jongware <jongware@no-spam.plz> - 2012-07-30 15:53 +0200
    Re: commas "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-07-30 15:50 +0100
      Re: commas "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-08-01 01:56 +0100
        Re: commas Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-08-01 03:31 +0100
    Re: commas rossum <rossum48@coldmail.com> - 2012-07-30 19:57 +0100
    Re: commas Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201207.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2012-07-30 22:14 +0200
      Re: commas Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-07-30 23:00 +0100

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