From 3bd756c773b6ca84eeb9baf642b00f8cfd3e895b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 14:54:25 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Decision for p0143 - Numeric literals (#167)

Adds a decision and rationale for proposal #143.

Co-authored-by: Jon Meow <46229924+jonmeow@users.noreply.github.com>
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@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ request:
 -   [0120 - Add idiomatic code performance and developer-facing docs to goals](p0120.md)
     -   [Decision](p0120_decision.md)
 -   [0143 - Numeric literals](p0143.md)
+    -   [Decision](p0143_decision.md)
 -   [0149 - Change documentation style guide](p0149.md)
 
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+# Decision for: Numeric literals
+
+<!--
+Part of the Carbon Language project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM
+Exceptions. See /LICENSE for license information.
+SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+-->
+
+Proposal accepted on 2020-09-15
+
+Affirming:
+
+-   [austern](https://github.com/austern)
+-   [chandlerc](https://github.com/chandlerc)
+-   [geoffromer](https://github.com/geoffromer)
+-   [gribozavr](https://github.com/gribozavr)
+-   [josh11b](https://github.com/josh11b)
+-   [zygoloid](https://github.com/zygoloid)
+
+Abstaining:
+
+-   [noncombatant](https://github.com/noncombatant)
+-   [tituswinters](https://github.com/tituswinters)
+
+## Open questions
+
+Placement restrictions of digit separators:
+
+-   The core team had consensus for the proposed restricted placement rules.
+
+Use `_` or `'` as the digit separator character:
+
+-   The core team deferred this decision to the painter.
+-   The painter selected `_`.
+
+## Rationale
+
+The proposal provides a syntax that is sufficiently close to that used both by
+C++ and many other languages to be very familiar. However, it selects a
+reasonably minimal subset of the syntaxes. This minimal approach provides
+benefits directly in line with both the simplicity and readability goals of
+Carbon:
+
+-   Reduces unnecessary choices for programmers.
+-   Simplifies the syntax rules of the language.
+-   Improves consistency of written Carbon code.
+
+That said, it still provides sufficient variations to address important use
+cases for the goal of not leaving room for a lower level language:
+
+-   Hexadecimal and binary integer literals.
+-   Scientific notation floating point literals.
+-   Hexadecimal (scientific) floating point literals.
+
+### Painter rationale
+
+The primary aesthetic benefit of `'` to the painter is consistency with C++.
+However, its rare usage in C++ at this point reduces this advantage to a very
+small one, while there is broad convergence amongst other languages around `_`.
+The choice here has no risk of significant meaning or building up patterns of
+reading for users that might be disrupted by the change, and so it seems
+reasonable to simply converge with other languages to end up in the less
+surprising and more conventional syntax space.