> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Jürgen Krämer
> Sent: 14 April 2008 10:09
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Updated floating point patch
>
>
>
> 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.
Right, obvious, forgot about that!
---Zdenek
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