Feature Request: K, M, B numerical suffixes for thousands, millions, billions

[Yzrsah]

I've always wished I could write this:

{
    xScale: 15M,
    yScale: 100K,
    zScale: 2.5M,
}

Instead of this:

{
    xScale: 15000000,
    yScale: 100000,
    zScale: 2500000,
}

It's just difficult to read, especially when there's more numbers. I have to stop and think kind of hard and look at the numbers carefully, and count the digits to make sure I'm not making a mistake.

Could do this:

{
    xScale: 15 * 1e6,
    yScale: 100 * 1000,
    zScale: 2.5 * 1e6,
}

But it's so verbose that I'd forget to use it.

It would be amazing if we could write numbers as simply as 100K. I understand how this feature request might seem a little radical, but I think the purpose of the language is to describe information, and the feature scope of being able to describe information as 100K is not all that different from 100 * 1000.

Reasons this could work:

• It's forward compatible and wouldn't break any existing Jsonnet
• No ambiguity or parsing problems