From: Josef 'Jupp' Schugt <jupp@...>
Date: 2003-09-12T05:41:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] rcalc 2.2 (Was: [ANN] rcalc 2.1 (Ruby Calculator))

Saluton!

* Harry Ohlsen; 2003-09-11, 12:01 UTC:
> I've specified whitespace, commas and semicolons as potential
> command separators, simply because people are likely to guess one
> of them.

Before asking for features please make sure that they are not already
present :-> I forgot to mention that you can enter several commands
on one line as long as they are separated by white space.

I don't want to support the use of a comma to avoid confusion. Most
people would read '3,142' as 'three thousand one hundred fourty-two'
or as 'drei komma eins vier zwei'. The latter is the German version
which in English means 'three dot one four two'. Few people would
read it as 'three followed by hundred fourty-two'.

As far as the use of semicolon is concerned: I want to use it as a
comment character (as it is in LISP).

BTW: I found a bug in interactive and script mode that is related to
splitting lines - strings in quotation signs are split, too. I will
look into that.

Gis,

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
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