Am Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:08:07 +0200 schrieb Marco Leise <marco.le...@gmx.de>:
> 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. I experimented a bit with it and the modifications to DMD are mostly straight forward copy,paste,modify. But then I face palmed: 'b' is of course a valid digit in hex notation already, meaning it would always be counted as part of the hex number, and not as a suffix. That would be a bit ... inconvenient. :D -- Marco
