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underscores in numeric constants (was: how to truncate lines)
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Joe Wells
Feb 22, 1991, 12:59:57 PM2/22/91
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lw...@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
perl -e 'print "*" x 1_000_000, "\n"' | perl -pe 'chop; $_=substr($_,0,80)."\n"'
^ ^
How long has this been in the language? (The ability to put as many
underscores as you want in the middle of a numeric constant.) When was it
added?
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Joe Wells <j...@bu.edu>
Larry Wall
Feb 22, 1991, 1:35:34 PM2/22/91
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In article <JBW.91Fe...@bigbird.bu.edu> j...@bigbird.bu.edu (Joe Wells) writes:
: lw...@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
:
: perl -e 'print "*" x 1_000_000, "\n"' | perl -pe 'chop; $_=substr($_,0,80)."\n"'
: ^ ^
:
: How long has this been in the language? (The ability to put as many
: underscores as you want in the middle of a numeric constant.) When was it
: added?
: lw...@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
:
: perl -e 'print "*" x 1_000_000, "\n"' | perl -pe 'chop; $_=substr($_,0,80)."\n"'
: ^ ^
:
: How long has this been in the language? (The ability to put as many
: underscores as you want in the middle of a numeric constant.) When was it
: added?
As near as I can recall, it's been in there since before version 2.
It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers. :-)
Larry
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