Hi, On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Alan G Isaac <alan.is...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2/27/2012 2:28 PM, Pauli Virtanen wrote: >> ISO specifies comma to be used in international standards >> (ISO/IEC Directives, part 2 / 6.6.8.1): >> >> http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink?func=ll&objId=10562502&objAction=download > > > I do not think you are right. > I think that is a presentational requirement: > rules of presentation for documents that > are intended to become international standards. > Note as well the requirement of spacing to > separate digits. Clearly this cannot be a data > storage specification. > > Naturally, the important thing is to agree on a > standard data representation. Which one it is > is less important, especially if conversion tools > will be supplied. > > But it really is past time for the scientific community > to insist on one international standard, and the > decimal point has privilege of place because of > computing language conventions. (Being the standard > in the two largest economies in the world is a > different kind of argument in favor of this choice.)
Maybe we can just agree it is an important option to have rather than an unimportant one, Best, Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
