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Fun fact: the semicolon won't decline soon in France (and a few other countries I think): it's what we use instead of commas for CSV files! However I never use
by jmnicolas 5y ago
Fun fact: the semicolon won't decline soon in France (and a few other countries I think): it's what we use instead of commas for CSV files!
However I never use it when writing anything, I'm not even sure what's its usage.
- _def 5y agoI'm not super sure but you probably could've used one instead of the comma in your last sentence. I think people just use other symbols instead: comma, dash and period.
- delecti 5y agoI think Germany does that as well. It was very confusing to inherit code that "accepted CSVs", but didn't accept files where the values were comma-separated.
- jmnicolas 5y agoBecause we use the comma instead of the dot for decimal numbers. Since the advent of computers it's a bit less true, dots are used too but this is the historical reason.