From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA05464; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:45:15 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA05402 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:45:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from shell5.ba.best.com (shell5.ba.best.com [206.184.139.136]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f32JjCj09185; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:45:12 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (bpr@localhost) by shell5.ba.best.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/best.sh) with ESMTP id MAA16337; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:45:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:45:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Rogoff To: Chris Hecker cc: caml-list@inria.fr, Xavier Leroy Subject: Re: [Caml-list] petty complaints In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010402121231.039de910@shell16.ba.best.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr