Allow specify numbers with suffixes

[Jerry Schulteis]

 I see the BigInt proposal at the moment uses a suffix 'n' for BigInt literals.That would conflict with Andrey's desire to have it mean metric nano (* 10**-9).Maybe tagged template literals would do?
    populationSize = SI`100M`;    setTimeout(foo, millis`30s`);

    On Thursday, November 23, 2017, 7:22:41 AM CST, Isiah Meadows <isiahmeadows at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 
Check out the various unit-related proposals that have spawned on this list, and note that IIRC the BigInt proposal [1] also notes that as a possible future expansion.

[1]: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-bigint

On Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 08:17 Andrey Muzalevsky <face2world at gmail.com> wrote:

Idea is simple, also is simple to implement and do not conflicting with existing standard
Readability of javascript can be improved in certain cases like:   
   - populationSize = 100000000
   - maxMessageSize = 4194304   

   - setTimeout(foo, 30000)
   - if(timeElapsed > 100) {...}
This can be changed to following:   
   - populationSize = 100M
   - maxMessageSize = 4MB   

   - setTimeout(foo, 30s)
   - if(timeElapsed > 0.1s) {...}
Also it will be great to support floating number, most convinient way to do this is tract suffix just like a multipler, so
1.5MB == 1.5 * 1MB Supported suffixes, as I see them:   
   - Metric prefixes group
   
   - follow SI Prefixes scheme, to decrease entrance level
   - allowing to use short and full form
   - it is case sensetive (bad, but everyone knows it)
   - not sure about μ, it either:   

   
   - (my preference) supported as UTF-8 sumbol, always can be replaced with 'full' form when needed(is it recommended to use?)
   - has a replace symbol which can be easily typed
   - allowed only in full form
   
   - samples:
   
   - 4M == 4mega == 4 000 000
   - 5n == 5nano == 0.000 000 005
   - 1micro == 0.000 001
   
   - Bytes prefixes group
   
   - Metric prefixes turned into bytes prefixes by adding either 'B' to short form, or 'byte[s]' to full form
   - Byte suffix is written in upper-case 'B', e.g. 'kB', 'MB', 'GB'
   
   - This is done to remove inconsistency with widely used bit/byte differentiation, e.g. `kb` and `KB` usually mean different things
   
   - Samples:
   
   - 1kB = 1kilobyte = 1024
   - 1MB = 1megabyte = 1024*1024
   
   - Time group, counted in milliseconds   

   
   - s, sec = 1000
   - min = 60 * 1000
   - h, hr = 60 * 60 * 1000
   - d, day[s] = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000
   - w, week[s] = 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000
   
   - Also it will be good to allow compound number definitions, samples   

   
   - 1h 30min = 1h + 30min
   - 1mB 200kB = 1mB + 200kB

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