On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Mark J. Reed wrote:
: On 2002-10-26 at 18:10:39, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
: > > Larry wrote:
: > > > If one were going to generalize that, one would be tempted to go the Ada
: > > > route of specifying the radix explicitly:
: Ada and others . . . ksh uses the # for this (in place
On 2002-10-26 at 18:10:39, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> > Larry wrote:
> > > If one were going to generalize that, one would be tempted to go the Ada
> > > route of specifying the radix explicitly:
Ada and others . . . ksh uses the # for this (in place of your colon below),
and I seem to recall that sy
> Larry wrote:
> > If one were going to generalize that, one would be tempted to go the Ada
> > route of specifying the radix explicitly:
> >
> > 0123# decimal
> > 2:0110 # binary
> > 8:123 # octal
> > 16:123 # hex
> > 256:192.16
