Automatically underscore large numbers in editor

A feature I’d like to see in Hopscotch is: automatically underscore large numbers

I’d use it for this type of project: projects involving money

Here are some examples of Hopscotch code that could be improved if we had this:

can you read how many 0s this is? I didn’t think so

Here is an example design I’ve made:

1_000_000

I’ve seen something similar in another programming languages, it looks like this:

you can do this in a lot of programming languages I think, I know at least swift

  • Good idea
  • Ehhh I don’t think so
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That would be a good idea. I have the same problem most of the time (first)

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I usually just count how many 0s I type in but I guess this could help a little

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Yeah I am making a business simulator and I had to put waaaay to many zeros. This is a really good idea

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Idk what the system is in the US but isn’t it smth like 4,000,000,000?
Maybe it could be that instead of underscores?

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Instead of underscores, it could be “,” “.” or “-“

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But it should be automatic so you can just type another zero and it would just go up a place

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In France they put a space so it would be 4 000 000 000

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Really? Cool.

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That’s the whole point. Automatic spacing.

I’d personally prefer 400_000 instead of 400,000 because I feel as the underscores would be easier to read at a quick glance

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I’d rather have it insert a small space that isn’t copyable

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This is a pretty good idea actually, I like it!

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Yeah I agree.

I like E’s idea too, but that may be harder to read than the _

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In merca we use “,”’s

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Commas are common in the US, which is where hopscotch is based. So that’s probobly what would happen. Unless they decided to do it based on location, which I highly doubt will happen btw.

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Do you mean scientific notation? Cuz that would be nice

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Yes I know I live in the US. I don’t normally find commas being used in programming languages but rather underscores or spaces

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Yeah, in Python you can type underscores for big numbers.

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I most often see underscores/they are the easiest to read for me

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In Sweden you actually sometimes just type it with no spaces or anything like 4000000000 etc

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