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From: Nick Leaton <nickle@calfp.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of  Choice
Date: 1997/06/24
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Date: 1997-06-24T00:00:00+00:00
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Bertrand Meyer wrote:
> 
> Just a note that since clearly a majority of people
> think the placement of underscores in integers
> should be free I agree that the Eiffel rule
> (group digits by packets of three) should be demoted
> from a language constraint to a mere style recommendation.
> 

And that underscores should be allowed in floating point
representations.

Some compilers will not freeze or finalise underscored floating point
numbers.

-- 

Nick