Welcome to the Visual Basic Language forum!
Hi all, and welcome to the newVisual Basic Language forum.I'm Paul Yuknewicz - I'm one of the Program Managers on the Visual Basic product team, and starting today, I'll be moderating these forums. For more info about me, check out
my blog.In this forum we will cover questions and discussions regarding the VB language, compiler, VB framework/runtime. This includes things like generics, language keywords, My namespace, etc.
My team and I look forward to joining you in discussions about the VB Language.
Best,
Paul
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Best,
Paul Yuknewicz
hi, paul,
first of all, the forum functions very badly - it is approx 10th time I am trying to post a text. I am using brand new installation of winxp_sp2 installed just for testing vs.net 2005 and sql2005, but this text editing box for my post downloads for eons and almost never finish.
but, it is not the theme of my post. I was looking in some new samples about vs2005 and realised that I do not like the statement
dim i as integer = 5000000
for decades new, useful, fancy things are added to programming languages, but this constant is as badly readable as it was in fortran IV.
what I want and need is a 'group separator' for constants. I am aware that we can not use dot or comma for that, but I think the following would be perfectly acceptable:
dim i as integer = 5_000_000
dim a as single = 5_000.000_001
so, the proposed rule is 'ignore underlines in numeric constants (hex included, of course)
I guess this is not a big deal to implement. it is also not a saviour of programming world. but it would be a cheap but nice touch.
do not pay attention where underlines are within the constant - just ignore them whatsoever.
thank you
hi, paul,
I found the ladybug website for posting wishes and suggestions (http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/)
I will repost my suggestion there, and will continue to use ladybug for things that are merely wishes and suggestions (not questions requiring answers)
anyhow, thank you
gjuro
P.S. forum now works somewhat better (regarding my previous comment) after I did some rearrangements in my home network :-)
