Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's a tad unfair. Dealing with numeric literals with lots of digits is
> a real (if not earth-shattering) human interface problem: it is hard for
> people to parse long numeric strings.
There are plenty of ways to make numeric literals easier to read without
resorting to built-in language support. One way is:
sixTrillion = 6 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000
Or, a more general solution might be to write a little factory function
which took a string, stripped out the underscores (or spaces, or commas, or
whatever bit of punctuation turned you on), and then converted the
remaining digit string to an integer. You could then write:
creditCardNumber = myInt ("1234 5678 9012 3456 789")
Perhaps not as convenient as having it built into the language, but
workable in those cases which justify the effort.
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