Hi,
Zdenek Sekera schrieb: > > But I am very uneasy with that leading ampersand. That’s so different > from any usual writing so it’s looks somehow bizarre to me. I don't like the leading ampersand, either. > There are human languages where a floating is not necessarily > written with a dot but with a comma, like this ‘1,71’. Not very > transparent to those not used to it but it can be done. I had > to learn the dot notation coming from the comma, took me short > while before becoming natural, so I supposed it shouldn’t be > a big problem going the other way around. > > So ‘let a=1,72+1,98’ (no apostrophes of course) may not look so obscene > after a while to anybody. Even Windows and Linux OS/applications > > How would this change complicate the vim parser? Have I overlooked > some obvious reason why this couldn’t be considered? Yes; commas are used as argument separators in function calls. With a comma as decimal separator you wouldn't know, if :call MyFunc(123,456) call MyFunc() with two integer or one floating-point arguments. jkr -- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. (Calvin) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
