Re: [RFC] Number Format Separator

Thomas Punt wrote: >> I'd like to propose for the inclusion of a digit separator in PHP. This will >> help to promote the readability of numerical literals in code by enabling for >> the underscore character to be used in between digits. >> >> RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/number_format_separator >> PR: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1699 > > Just bringing this back up to the top because of the recent influx in internals > activity. I'm hoping to put this to vote tomorrow, so if anyone has any > questions or problems with this RFC, then please let me know! Thanks for pushing that improvement forward, Tom. AIUI, digit separators are stripped during lexing, so echo 1_000; will print 1000 I think it is important to explicitly note that in the RFC. With regard to "stringy numerics": besides the potential BC break, IMHO there is no need to support digit separators for string literals at all, because that could easily be provided by a userland function. Maybe it's worth pointing that out in the RFC. -- Christoph M. Becker