On 12 July 2012 18:42, Marco Leise <marco.le...@gmx.de> wrote: > 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.
"L" is also an internationally-recognised symbol for litres. http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/outside.html Personally, I think that if I need to care about the data size/maximum range of a value, I should be using a fixed-size data type rather than specifying it in the value. The language typically supports me in doing so without the need for prefixes except on rare occasions. Geoff