jbw@bigbird.bu.edu (Joe Wells) (02/23/91)
lwall@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 <jbw@bu.edu>lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) (02/23/91)
In article <JBW.91Feb22125957@bigbird.bu.edu> jbw@bigbird.bu.edu (Joe Wells) writes: : lwall@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