bearophile wrote: > What's the purpose of them? The only thing I can imagine using it for is checking the magic number in a file header. Like 'ZM' for a DOS exe.
But I'd prefer to just use a regular string for it... an integer would be easily wrong due to endianness issues. (In the DOS exe the header actually says 'MZ' if you read the file from left to right. The PNG magic number is '.PNG' left to right, but as an integer literal, it would be backward 'GNP.') Seems like more trouble than its worth to me, but maybe I'm missing something too.
