<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mailinglists@geldenhuys.co.uk" target="_blank">mailinglists@geldenhuys.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I don't know about you, but I like this idea implemented in Java 7 and<br>
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I always find it hard to read long numeric literals.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I find it a made up problem, inspired by sales department.</div><div><br></div><div>The site shows CC-card and SSN number stored as numerics. I doubt there's ever a task that actually needs such storage (since both numbers should be considered as a set of characters ie strings).</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe its a new feature that will inspire people to use more anonymous constants.</div><div>They looked ugly before, but look how cute they look now if underscores.</div><div><br></div><div>Having pure-functions available for pascal constant expressions is far more preferred than underscores. </div><div>And it will also might make them even more readable and flexible.</div><div><br></div><div>thanks,</div><div>Dmitry</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>