From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  schrieb:   
   > I see that Fortran uses the underscore in integer and real literals as a   
   > special suffix delimiter, followed by a code number or name to indicate   
   > the type of the literal. Pity they didn’t follow the convention in some   
   > other languages,   
      
   That would, I belive, have required a time machine.  The other   
   languages could have followed Fortran: Fortran still has such a   
   method: Blanks are not significant in fixed form, so   
      
         a = 123.456 789   
      
   is perfectly legal.  It would be possible to introduce that into free   
   form without too much hassle.   
      
   So, I think we should ask latecomers like Python to change.   
      
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