Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote:
> According to Camel book 2nd edition page 39,
>
> "The underscore only works within literal numbers specified in your
> program, not for strings functioning as numbers or data read from
> somewhere else."
>
> I suspect that when Perl processes rule files, the scores are not
> processed like "literal numbers".
>
> L
Bingo
perl -e "for (@ARGV) { print $_, qq(\t), 1 * $_, qq(\n); }" 1 1.2 1.2_3
1 1
1.2 1.2
1.2_3 1.2
Note the last... 1.2_3 is numified as 1.2
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