Even worse, in many European countries (and if I remember aright, in the
ISO) the billions/milions/thousands separator is a space, so tat US
123,456,789.001 is written as 123 456 789,001




>However, our non-American colleagues might have fits over this one,
>since in some locales the decimal "point" is written as a comma, and the
>thousands/millions/billions separator is written as a period, e.g.
>
>    123,456.78 is written as 123.456,78
>
>So building Point instances with a comma operator might cause problems
>for people in such a locale.  Just an observation...
>
>Bob Jarvis
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>David N. Smith wrote:
>
>> One thing that has always bugged me is the notation x at y. X is not AT y.
>> We'd need another notation for forming vectors and the only thing that
>> comes to mind offhand is -> which is as bad, but at least it looks like a
>> vector, sort of. Binary creation methods:
>>
>>    2 -> 3
>>    2 -> 3 -> 4
>
>I have never fully understood the use of @ either. I've always figured it had
>some historical significance or was pulled out of some domain I wasn't familiar
>with. I would much rather use the comma to build points from numbers. That's
>what I as a highschool student was familiar with. Is this (e.g. 2,3) not the
>common lay representation of a 2D point?
>
>Travis Griggs
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