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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