support underscores (or spaces) for numeric literals | Voters

support underscores (or spaces) for numeric literals

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Bryce Arden

It would be great if we could support having delimiters in long number strings (as shown below). This is particularly useful for long binary/hex numbers. Soulver 2 seemed to support spaces in binary numbers but Soulver 3 does not.

Thanks!

April 6, 2022

Zac @ Soulver

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Zac @ Soulver

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Allow different thousand separators

John Wiegley

When pasting numbers in from programming languages, they often have the form 1_234_567, since commas and periods cannot be used. Being able to copy&paste in and out numbers of this format would be very useful for using Soulver as an aid to determining constants while writing code (something I find myself doing more and more lately).

April 8, 2022

Jasper Lai

Alternatively, perhaps Soulver could, upon paste, ignore underscores inside otherwise unbroken strings of digits and parse it like in many languages? (I really like that Soulver honours my system thousands and decimal separators.)
I wonder if it helps that Swift already does this anyway. Plus, if I'm not mistaken, Soulver's already smart enough not to do its separator smarts in comments.
I imagine this could confuse non-coders, but I also can't think of a scenario where non-coders would format numbers like 1_234_567
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