Re: Numeric Literals (Summary 4)

[Michael Lazzaro]

On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 04:41  PM, Andrew Wilson wrote:

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:02:57PM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:

   _01.23      # wrong
   01.23_      # wrong

Is _ not space eater, or was that not decided?  If it is then aren't
these two just literals with space eaters.

Yep, that might happen. So the two above _might_ be legal, though I have a hard time thinking of a scenario in which it would be useful.

Note that the space-eating '_' wouldn't be part of the literal... it's a (pseudo?)operator on the literal, so the purely-literals tests should still mark the above as bad literal syntax.

MikeL