<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>I am not hearing any objections about this, so I am going to mark it as accepted.</div><div><br></div><div>-Iavor</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 10:56 AM Simon Peyton Jones <<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com">simonpj@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I’m ok with this, although I have not thought deeply about the details.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Simon<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> ghc-steering-committee [mailto:<a href="mailto:ghc-steering-committee-bounces@haskell.org" target="_blank">ghc-steering-committee-bounces@haskell.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Iavor Diatchki<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 07 November 2017 18:12<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org" target="_blank">ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ghc-steering-committee] Underscores in literals<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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Hello,<u></u><u></u></p>
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This e-mail is about pull request #76, to allow underscores in numeric literals:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Ftakenobu-hs%2Fghc-proposals%2Fblob%2Fnumeric-underscores%2Fproposals%2F0000-numeric-underscores.rst&data=02%7C01%7Csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7C43f4d68308cc457345c608d5260b15d4%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636456751412020624&sdata=NJviNm0jzZTC5BXIPylzb2WsWtJRJk%2B2upa8ImD%2F6y0%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://github.com/takenobu-hs/ghc-proposals/blob/numeric-underscores/proposals/0000-numeric-underscores.rst</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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In short, this is a very simply feature, which modifies the notation for numeric literals to allow writing underscores (_) in the middle of literals.   The underscores are only to increase readability, and have no effect on the meaning of the program.  So,
 for example, I could write things like: 10_000_072 or 0xFFFF_FA10.<u></u><u></u></p>
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Many other languages have a similar feature (especially hardware specification languages) and I see no downsides to it, so I think we should accept it.<u></u><u></u></p>
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Please respond to this e-mail if you have objections.<u></u><u></u></p>
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Cheers,<u></u><u></u></p>
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-Iavor  <u></u><u></u></p>
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