From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@best.com>
To: Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr, Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] petty complaints
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:45:09 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104021231290.7799-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010402121231.039de910@shell16.ba.best.com>
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Chris Hecker wrote:
> Perl allows the same thing for ints and floats. Not sure if that's an
> argument for or against. :)
Thanks, it is Perl that allows multiple adjacent underlines in a numeric
literal. I was wondering why I had thought that Ada allowed that. While
I've never felt the desire to use underlines as anything other than comma
replacements in a numeric literal, if this were going to be added to OCaml
I see no reason not to go with the Perl approach.
Perl is certainly ugly, and even worse the Perlers stole our mascot.
However, that shouldn't prejudice us against this feature. Even a broken
clock is right twice a day. :-)
-- Brian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-02 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-02 4:26 Brian Rogoff
2001-04-02 13:32 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-04-02 15:24 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-02 20:17 ` Chris Hecker
2001-04-02 19:45 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
2001-04-09 5:23 ` John Max Skaller
2001-04-09 15:34 ` Christian Lindig
2001-04-09 16:01 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-09 16:24 ` David McClain
2001-04-09 16:29 ` Pierre Weis
2001-04-10 22:25 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2001-04-24 15:23 [Caml-list] Petty complaints Brian Rogoff
2001-04-25 6:55 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2001-04-25 7:00 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
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