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"Daniel Pitts" <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> wrote in message 
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> On 6/12/12 7:09 AM, bob wrote:
>> Are there any languages where you can actually use commas in the numbers?

> 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.

You could argue that half the syntax in a language could be the 
responsibility of the editor.

For example, the language proper might only have hexadecimal constants, 
leaving it to the editor to display as decimal.

Obviously that would have all sorts of disadvantages (when posting code to a 
group such as this for example).

But why would it be such a big deal for language syntax to help out with 
this sort of stuff?

(And if anyone knows the answer to that, perhaps they can tell me why you 
can't, generally, have embedded spaces when entering a credit-card number 
on-line, so that it matches the way it is shown on the card and is far 
easier to check.)

-- 
Bartc 

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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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