Am Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:42:13 +0200
schrieb Marco Leise <marco.le...@gmx.de>:

> Am Wed, 11 Jul 2012 22:58:07 +0200
> schrieb "bearophile" <bearophileh...@lycos.com>:
> 
> > > => a = 5s;
> > 
> > I read that as "5 seconds" :-(
> 
> Me too, but then again "5l" could be read as 5 liters. I guess that is why 
> the move is towards uppercase suffixes. 5S and 5L are not likely misread.
> 
> > I don't think your examples justify the increased language 
> > complexity.
> > 
> > Bye,
> > bearophile
> 
> I understand that some of the examples have better alternatives. What I don't 
> understand is why you term this as increased language complexity. This is not 
> one of the "why not add" kind of requests. From my point of view the 
> complexity is already there through U, UL, I and UI. So completing the set 
> with B, UB, S and US seems only logical and solves an existing (attention: 
> buzzword ahead) ... *inconsistency*. ;)
> 
> To cut a long story short; if I added those suffixes and made a pull request 
> would anyone be objected?

P.S.: There is no I or UI, just L and UL. Sorry for the confusion.

-- 
Marco

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