GigaY2k wrote:For separating coordinates you don't need to do anything. Keep it x,y,z (Without spaces. After the second comma it becomes evident that is not a decimal separator).
That's the same sort of fallacy that lets you make grammatical mistakes, you can figure out what they mean by the end of the sentense sometimes but that doesn't make it right, it becomes misinterpritted ahead of time, which is what a computer would do. Just the fact that humans can reason it out after the fact doesn't mean it's okay/logical.
GigaY2k wrote:As for making list use use either ";" or "," as a separator, and keep numbers separated by spaces (3, 2, 1 could be written 3; 2; 1 or 3, 2, 1 -- 3.5, 2.5, 1.5 could be written 3,5; 2,5; 1,5 or 3,5, 2,5, 1,5). I admit that using the commas can be confusing, it's just a mather of analysing the information before you.
";" is a very common programming character, usually marks the end of a line of code. Also in programming, except within "string" values, spaces " " are completely ignored, you can put in or leave out as many as you wish.
GigaY2k wrote:Of course this isn't useful when programming since most programming languages use the decimal dot. Basically you have to learn two languages (three in my case) and know when to use each. It's difficult but it's not impossible.
To each his own I suppose. Programming is meant to be a universal language in most cases (not language-specific, being logically based, although I suppose it is limitted to the Roman alphabet, mostly). But that's just as bad as having to learn MPH and KM. I'd actually rather be familiar with KM, knowing where it all came from... however I have no idea how long a KM really is, other than about .62 miles, which doesn't help at all. Hopefully in some future age, all kids can be raised under metric measurement.
So what I'm saying here.. is that there should be a single standard wherever possible. Language is one thing of course, of which there are unavoidably many (which is healthy as far as cultural preservation goes), however we're talking about numbers, which is just like measurements - it should be standardized. So it would not make sense to write one way and program another. Programming is based on language structure (statements, punctuation, grouping of ideas, etc).