[ghc-steering-committee] Underscores in literals

[Iavor Diatchki]

Hello,

I am not hearing any objections about this, so I am going to mark it as
accepted.

-Iavor


On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 10:56 AM Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>
wrote:

> I’m ok with this, although I have not thought deeply about the details.
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> Simon
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> *From:* ghc-steering-committee [mailto:
> ghc-steering-committee-bounces at haskell.org] *On Behalf Of *Iavor Diatchki
> *Sent:* 07 November 2017 18:12
> *To:* ghc-steering-committee at haskell.org
> *Subject:* [ghc-steering-committee] Underscores in literals
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> Hello,
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> This e-mail is about pull request #76, to allow underscores in numeric
> literals:
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> https://github.com/takenobu-hs/ghc-proposals/blob/numeric-underscores/proposals/0000-numeric-underscores.rst
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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.
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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.
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> Please respond to this e-mail if you have objections.
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> Cheers,
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> -Iavor
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