[Rd] Feature Request: Allow Underscore Separated Numbers
Duncan Murdoch
murdoch@dunc@n @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Fri Jul 15 12:01:57 CEST 2022
On 14/07/2022 3:53 p.m., Devin Marlin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After using R for a number of years, and venturing into other languages,
> I've noticed the ones with the ability to enter numbers separated by
> underscores for readability (like 100000 as 100_000) make life a whole lot
> easier, especially when debugging. Is this a feature that could be
> implemented in R?
I think this could be done, but I doubt if anyone who could make the
change would think the arbitrary decisions and added complexity in the
parser was worth the effort. (Would it be a thousands separator, or
could it separate any number of digits? Could a number start with an
underscore or end with one?)
Instead, I'd suggest creating variables with meaningful names to hold
big numeric constants, e.g.
AU_in_km <- 149598262 # or 149.598262e6
Jupiter <- 5.2 * AU_in_km
rather than
Jupiter <- 5.2 * 149_598_262
Duncan Murdoch
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