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Here's the RFC for it with the "why" and discussion of the tradeoffs. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/numeric_literal_separator

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Underscores in numeric literals are also now pretty much a defacto standard. Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, C#, Ruby, Rust, Swift, etc, all support it.

Thanks for the link.

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