Question

The Cobra programming language has a useful feature where you can use underscores in numeric literals to improve readability. For example, the following are equivalent, but the second line is easier to read:

x = 1000000
x = 1_000_000  # obviously 1 million

Is there anything equivalent for C#?

Answer 1

Answer as of C# 7

Yes, this is supported in C# 7. But be aware that there’s no validation that you’ve put the underscores in the right place:

// At a glance, this may look like a billion, but we accidentally missed a 0.
int x = 1_00_000_000;

Answer from 2011

No, there’s nothing like that in C#. You could do:

const int x = 1000 * 1000;

but that’s about as nice as it gets.

(Note that this enhancement went into Java 7 as well… maybe one day it will be introduced in C#.)