Re: Does Beanshell Support Numeric Literals with Underscores?

"Beanshell 2.0" is alive and well - as for 'adoption' - who knows - how much was beanshell 1x adopted ?
Atleast the code is on github, the work is primarily bug fixes and there are a few active contributors - me being one
(click click) - hmm looks like the last update was last year - 
thats not bad in itself for what is otherwise a mature product ... but its on google code which is EOL
https://code.google.com/p/beanshell2/

Looking on Github I found a dozen clones - none of which had the latest update from google or maintained the commiters  - so to make maters worse I just cloned it myself to

https://github.com/DALDEI/beanshell2

I personally use beanshell2 (was beanshell) on several commercial and personal projects - it works now as good as it ever did .... ( java 1.4 + special features that are similar to what we just got in 1.8 but not the same -  )

But I doubt its going to go further.
So many other JVM and Java-Like languages have gone so much further, and the original author has been unheard from for a decade (anyplace I can find atleast) - so the motivation to keep working on beanshell seems to be current users applying bug fixes or minor updates.






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From: Daniel Martin [mailto:martin-+m399P62/[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 6:16 PM
To: beanshell-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [Beanshell-users] Does Beanshell Support Numeric Literals with Underscores?

Not only do underscores in numeric literals not work in beanshell, binary literals (literals beginning with "0b") don't work either!

When I had to store constants in binary in beanshell or java, I tended to use Integer.parseInt("01001100", 2)

In general, the syntax beanshell supports is approximately that of java 1.4, with a few allowed variances.

Beanshell hasn't change in nearly a decade; many people believe it was effectively abandoned by its creator.

There were some attempts to revive development in a "Beanshell 2.0" project, but so far as I know that never achieved much adoption.

> On Jun 10, 2015, at 4:39 PM, Edward Wong <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I apologize in advance if this isn't the right place to email this question. I'm trying to write some scripts in which I use binary values along with underscores to make it easier to read.
> 
> For Example:
> 
> int BIT_MASK = 0b1000_1111;
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> However when I try running this, I get an error that looks like this:
> 
> *** User input parse error at line 1, column 17.  Encountered: 
> b1000_1111
> 
> Is it correct that "Numeric Literals with Underscores" isn't supported in Beanshell? Are there any plans to make it work?
> 
> ~ Edward Wong
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