From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.ans.net!newsgate. watson.ibm.com!yktnews.watson.ibm.com!ncohen@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Norman H. Co
Subject: Re: Underscore ("_") in numeric literals
Date: 4 Aug 93 14:43:29 GMT [thread overview]
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In article <23622cINN1er@umbc4.umbc.edu>, berman@umbc.edu (Mike Berman) writes:
|> dag@control.lth.se (Dag Bruck) writes:
|>
|> | I have received about 20 replies, all in favour. Is there nobody in
|> | the Ada community that thinks that it is a useless feature? It seems
|> | to rarely used for the simple reason that people rarely type big
|> | numbers.
|>
|> The use of embedded underscores in numeric literals is probably
|> statistically small, but the aid to understanding is invaluable.
...
Underscores are especially helpful in based constants, like
16#7fff_ffff# or 2#0010_1100_0001_0000# (especially for specifiying the
value to be placed in a control register in which each bit has a special
purpose).
--
Norman H. Cohen ncohen@watson.ibm.com
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1993-07-28 14:22 Mike Berman
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