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|    Paul Rubin to Anton Ertl    |
|    Re: "The Best Programming Language for t    |
|    15 Apr 25 17:32:34    |
      From: no.email@nospam.invalid              anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:       >>What happens for "10_ 20_ + ." ?       > It outputs 30, too. The intended use of _ in Gforth is like this:...       > What does your underlying mental model say how things should work?              One model is to ignore _ as gforth appears to. Another is that _ is a       separator character, ignored when it appears between two digits, but       meaningful or an error at the starting or ending position. That is how       Python 3 appears to work. 1_0 is the same as 10, but 10_ is a syntax error.              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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