Yeah, that was what I heard from our instructor when I was a graduate student: L stands for Long (integer).
Regards, Yihui -- https://yihui.name On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Serguei Sokol <so...@insa-toulouse.fr> wrote: > Le 16/06/2017 à 17:54, Henrik Bengtsson a écrit : >> >> I'm just curious (no complaints), what was the reason for choosing the >> letter 'L' as a suffix for integer constants? Does it stand for >> something (literal?), is it because it visually stands out, ..., or no >> specific reason at all? > > My guess is that it is inherited form C "long integer" type (contrary to > "short integer" or simply "integer") > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
