On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:57, George Bonser <gbon...@seven.com> wrote:
> That's exactly what I was going to say but didn't want to quibble. We tend > to call them "quads" at work. What do you call that indeterminate space > between two colons :: where it might be four or more zeros in there? That's a > bunch of nibbles, maybe a "gulp"? I don't call it anything. "The fourth $decided_upon is zero/empty" suffices :) Though if that gap does not have a name yet, I suppose it can't hurt to try and think of a canonical name, either. Richard