[fpc-pascal] Underscores in numerical literals - grouping

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Mon Nov 21 20:25:30 CET 2016


In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
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> On 2016-11-21 16:05, J?rgen Hestermann wrote:
> > Why?
> > I like monospaced fonts for code very much.
> 
> See my reply to Stephen. More intelligent editors can let you use
> monospaced and proportional fonts with ease - yet you don't loose code
> alignment, indentation etc. Elastic Tabstops do just that. It's simply
> about editors becoming more clever about there text rendering instead of
> forcing everything into a grid of character cells.
> 
> Plus proportional fonts overall look much better than monospaced ones. ;-)

IMHO editors should be like network protocols. Liberal in what you accept,
and conservative in what you write.

IOW I don't like editors that store in formats that are nearly useless in
other editors.



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