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Commas don't belong in numbers, not as a thousands separator and definitely not as a decimal point.
Also ISO8601 and that dark theme should be the default
What do you use as a thousands separator then?
I'm mostly unfamiliar with different systems than the standard comma for thousands and period for decimal. I've seen period used for thousands before, but in that case how does one differentiate between a thousands period and a decimal period?
1'000.00
1 000.00
1'000,00
1 000,00
work without confusing anyone.
While 1.000 or 1,000 can be read as 1 or 1000.
Spaces?!?! What are we, animals?
spaces work fine for natural language, but what about regular languages. How should a programming language parse something like
x = 1 234Sure that works fine in whitespace agnostic languages, but in something like shell script, it could mean "1,234" or ["1", "234"] (currently, it would be the latter). In a functional language (e.g. Haskell) it would also be parsed as 2 separate numbers.