why i hate the dot

hi guys !!

PS> 1.000.000.000
PS> # NOT RETURN ANYTHGING

PS> perl6 -e 'say 1_000_000_000'
1000000000


PS> @'
>> fn main() {
>>  let s = 1_000_000_000;
>>  println!("{}",s);
>> }
>> '@ > ./num.rs

PS> rustc .\num.rs

PS> ./num.exe
1000000000

in this example i compared between rust, raku and PS…like you see rust and raku use “_” underscore to separate betwwen number and its much clean…but in PS with “.” dot it not return anything.

[vexx32]

PowerShell doesn’t have a number separator like that. I have previously proposed to add an underscore numeral separator, but it was vetoed during review of the PR a year or two back, I think.

When you do 1.000 PowerShell sees that as a floating point number with the value 1.000. If you then attempt to use another dot, PowerShell assumes you want to access a property, but 1.000 as a numeric value has no property named .000 and so it will return $null, and further property access from that point will continue to return $null.

1.000.000.000 tells PowerShell:

1. make a number, 1.000 (floating point, double)
2. access the property of that number called 000 (null)
3. access the property of that value called 000 (null again)

[ShrykeWindgrace]

@mklement0 Indeed, I forgot about the context here, and my comment was harsh - and uncalled for; please accept my apologies.