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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] syntactic detail

On 02/08/2012 01:05 PM, rixed@happyleptic.org wrote:
> Just in case it was not clear from Gabriel's answer alone, the
> purpose of allowing underscores is to write big integers like:
> 
>   1_000_000_000
> 
> which is very nice once you are used to it.

So I have learnt something new. Thanks.

This could be interesting (and in some special cases also useful)
optional syntactic sugar. I if were it my power, I would drop it from
the core language.

(although I found underscore still useful putting in between
32-bit/64-bit literal decimal integer and 'l'/'L' suffix.)