From: Robert Feldt Date: 2001-11-09T08:25:24+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:24707] Trailing uc strange lexer error message?! Hi, I find the error message and pointer ("^") below a bit strange: irb(main):002:0> -9_.1 -9.1 irb(main):003:0> -9_._8 SyntaxError: compile error (irb):3: trailing `_' in number -9_._8 ^ from (irb):3 irb(main):004:0> exit feldt@CHALMERS1500 /tmp/rockit/temp/src $ ruby -v ruby 1.7.1 (2001-10-22) [i686-cygwin] /Robert