Re: Winding and unwinding

From	Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Winding and unwinding
Date	2016-12-13 15:10 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

> On 13/12/2016 12:57, fir wrote:
>
>> few things can be take as topics for some discussion
>> like you wnted to allow 1,000,000 for 1000000 -
>> this i must agree - many would agree and noted i think
>> that to use numbers such or at least "1 000 000 " way
>> is something c lacks - but how to incorporate it in the
>> syntax is some trouble/open question
>
> Yes, writing:
>
>    f(1,000,000);
>
> is a little ambiguous. Is that one parameter (1000000) or three
> (1,0,0)?

In the unlikely event of ',' being added as a digit separator in C, this
should be one argument.  There is a natural interpretation based on the
"maximum munch" used by the lexer -- take the longest sequence of
character that makes a valid token.

<snip>
-- 
Ben.

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Winding and unwinding "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 11:46 -0800
  Re: Winding and unwinding Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 23:15 +0300
    Re: Winding and unwinding Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 23:21 +0300
    Re: Winding and unwinding "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 13:29 -0800
      Re: Winding and unwinding fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 14:07 -0800
        Re: Winding and unwinding fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-12-15 08:54 -0800
          Re: Winding and unwinding "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-15 09:04 -0800
            Re: Winding and unwinding fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-12-15 09:15 -0800
  Re: Winding and unwinding supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-12-12 12:21 -0800
  Re: Winding and unwinding BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-12-12 20:48 +0000
    Re: Winding and unwinding "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 13:28 -0800
  Re: Winding and unwinding fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 13:14 -0800
    Re: Winding and unwinding fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 14:26 -0800
      Re: Winding and unwinding "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 16:13 -0800
        Re: Winding and unwinding fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 16:33 -0800
          Re: Winding and unwinding "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 16:48 -0800
            Re: Winding and unwinding fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 17:05 -0800
              Re: Winding and unwinding "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 17:22 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 17:33 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 17:55 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 03:11 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 03:39 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 03:59 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 04:57 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-12-13 13:24 +0000
                Re: Winding and unwinding fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 05:34 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 05:34 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 06:01 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-12-13 15:10 +0000
                Re: Winding and unwinding "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 05:30 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 05:45 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 05:58 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 06:04 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 10:24 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 21:44 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-14 02:13 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-12-14 11:45 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-14 12:09 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-12-14 12:50 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-12-17 05:28 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-12-13 14:54 +0000
                Re: Winding and unwinding "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 07:03 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 07:09 -0800
                Re: Winding and unwinding fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 05:27 -0800
      Re: Winding and unwinding fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 17:13 -0800
  Re: Winding and unwinding Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-12-12 16:28 -0800

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