Update on JSR 334 Expert Group activities

[Bruce Chapman]

On 25/01/2011 9:22 p.m., Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:
> One good reason to disallow multiple underscores is to keep multiple
> underscores available for future language expansion. Presumably JDK7 isn't
> the last java release to have new language features. I admit I can't think
> of anything that would be best served by multiple underscores, but who knows
> what java needs 5 years from now?

so what future language expansion can you possibly foresee happening in 
the middle of a numeric literal?
  (which is the only place this single/multiple underscore issue relates to)

It can't be used as a new operator because it is already a valid identifier.


Bruce