On 2016-02-12 20:06, Chris Barker wrote:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com
<mailto:p.f.mo...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I have no opinion on anything other than that whatever syntax is
implemented as long as it allows single underscores between digits,
such as
1_000_000
Everything else is irrelevant to me, and if I read code that uses
anything else, I'd judge it based on readability and style, and
wouldn't care about arguments that "it's allowed by the grammar".
I totally agree -- and it's clear that other cultures group digits
differently, so we should allow that, but while I'll live with it either
way, I'd rather have it be as restrictive as possible rather than as
unrestricted as possible. As in:
no double underscores
no underscore right before or after a period
no underscore at the beginning or end.
....
As Paul said, as long as I can do the above, I'll be fine, but I think
everyone's source code will be a lot cleaner in the long run if you
don't have the option of doing who knows what weird arrangement....
As for the SS# example -- it seems a bad idea to me to store a SS#
number as an integer anyway -- so all the weird IDs etc. formats aren't
really relevant...
That also applies to telephone numbers, account numbers, etc. They
aren't really numbers (you wouldn't do arithmetic on them) and might
have leading zeros.
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