[Octave-patch-tracker] [patch #8760] Extend parser to allow underscore character in numbers

[Rik]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?8760>

                 Summary: Extend parser to allow underscore character in
numbers
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: rik5
            Submitted on: Mon 05 Oct 2015 02:10:58 PM PDT
                Category: None
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: Ready For Test
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: rik5
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Quoting from the NEWS file entry I wrote.


 ** The parser has been extended to accept, but ignore, underscore characters
    in numbers.  This facilitates writing more legible code by using '_' as
    a thousands separator or to group nibbles into bytes in hex constants.
    Examples: 1_000_000 == 1e6 or 0xDE_AD_BE_EF


This looks like a fun addition to Octave which further distinguishes it from
Matlab.  I ran 'make check' and all tests pass so nothing appears to have been
broken by this added functionality.




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Date: Mon 05 Oct 2015 02:10:58 PM PDT  Name: _number.cset  Size: 4kB   By:
rik5

<http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/download.php?file_id=35077>

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