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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Digit separators for numeric literals
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de (Christoph Becker)

Nikita Nefedov wrote:

> 2015-02-19 6:44 GMT+04:00 Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>:
>>
>> I think it will be difficult to find a separator character that doesn't
>> make a mess of the grammar.
>
> Why not space? It's certainly possible (I just checked) and it would look
> clear I guess:
> 
>     my_func(1 999 999);

By the same reasoning spaces could be allowed for identifiers as well, e.g.

  my func(1 999 999);

Too confusing and error prone, IMHO.

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Christoph M. Becker