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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2025 11:45:41 -0700
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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
> Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:
[...]
>>I made , (comma) the digit separator in TXR Lisp. Nobody uses _ in the
>>real world.
>
> That's an incorrect statement.  There's a large amount of Verilog
> code (both the RTL and the associated verification testbench code)
> that uses _ as a digit separator.

I suspect that by "the real world" Kaz was referring to usage outside
programming languages.

There are a number of languages that use '_' as a digit separator; Ada,
Perl, Python, Ruby are some examples.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */