On Monday, December 8, 2014 10:21:52 AM UTC+10, Phil Tomson wrote: > > julia> typeof(-0b111) > Uint64 > > julia> typeof(-7) > Int64 > > julia> typeof(-0x7) > Uint64 > > julia> typeof(-7) > Int64 > > I find this a bit surprising. Why does the base of the number determine > signed or unsigned-ness? Is this intentional or possibly a bug? >
This is documented behaviour http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/integers-and-floating-point-numbers/#integers based on the heuristic that using hex is "mostly" in situations where you need unsigned behaviour anyway. Cheers Lex
