On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:46 PM, J Decker <d3c...@gmail.com> wrote: > Seems like adding hex interpreting is just adding code for the sake of > adding code. > Unless the data is coming from some pre written text file, isn't just just > as easy to format an into into decimal as it is for hex without having to > add extra characters for the prefix? >
One desirable aspect of code is that it is easily understood, that future modifications / changes be as easy as possible. It is usually much easier to see that 0x40000000 is a single bit set in a 32 bit integer vs seeing the number 1073741824 and wondering exactly what it means. At least it is to me. For that reason, I think adding hex constants to the parser is a good idea. If I were expressing wishes, I'd suggest adding binary constants (with a 0b prefix) but that's probably pushing luck. :) But no octal! At least not using the C syntax. I like being able to prefix a decimal integer with 0 and not having it change the meaning (which can't be done in C). -- Scott Robison _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
