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Ha. TIL you can do 1_000_000.times do ... (equivalent to 1000000.times do ...). That's really nice.

Install the Rubocop extension in your editor and it'll bug you about it every time you have a big int (kind of annoying when you're doing one-off scripts and embed "magic numbers" like IDs from the database lol)

Listing cops with:

  rubocop --show-cops

I can see that the NumericLiterals cop that's bothering you supports autocorrect so running:

  rubocop -A <filename>

should fix the problem for you.

A lot of languages have added support for this over the last few years. It's a nice little quality of life improvement. I use it very regularly now. I find it really handy for currency amounts in cents, so I can say `10_00` for ten dollars, in cents.

Sorry, it's a been feature in a number of languages for decades. Perl has it at least as early as 5.005 in 1998. So naturally, Ruby had it since at least before 1.6 / 2002. Java added it in 2011. It didn't work with Python 2.1 from 2001, but I found it was added relatively late in PEP 515 in 2016 with Python 3.6.

As a latecomer, C23 went with ' just like C++ did almost 10 years earlier with C++14.

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