For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

  • _edge@discuss.tchncs.de
    71·
    20 days ago

    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.

    • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
      21·
      20 days ago

      spaces work fine for natural language, but what about regular languages. How should a programming language parse something like

      x = 1 234

      Sure 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.