On 2008-05-05, Terence <tbwright@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Several european languages and all of South America write cent values
> after a comma, and so continue to do so in mathematics with "decimal
> commas". It has always caused problems in reading transcribed data in
> scientific and accounting applications.
Yes. Hence the DECIMAL='COMMA' in Fortran 2003 (see the thread
title). Although, if one is still stuck in 1977 (i.e. "the past") for
ideological or whatever reasons, that won't help. ;-)
TBH, despite residing in a country that officially uses decimal
commas, I tend to use punctuation marks. And so do a lot of other
people, especially in science/engineering. I suppose mainly due to the
influence of english literature as well as english-centric software.
--
Janne Blomqvist
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