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Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 10:19:45 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Numeric Literal Separator
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 29.05.2019 at 09:49, C=C3=B4me Chilliet wrote:

> What bugs me with this RFC is that it seems to be mainly intended for gr=
ouping digits by 3, which from what I understand is cultural.
> At least some asian languages have a concept of https://en.wikipedia.org=
/wiki/Myriad and group them by 4, at least from the language point of view=
.
> It does seem when writing as numbers they still group by 3, but it seems=
 other usages exists:
> https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/10-000-or-1-0000-japa=
nese-schools-are-starting-to-move-commas-on-big-numbers-but-why
>
> Anyway, just wanted to point out that grouping digit may not be complete=
ly universal.

Well, choosing English/German/Japanese words for identifiers isn't
completely universal either. :)

=2D-
Christoph M. Becker