On Friday, Nov 29, 2002, at 16:41 Europe/Amsterdam, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Another option was to add "k1", "k2", "k4" and "k8", to mean uint8, uint16, uint32 and uint64. "k1" and "k2" would be synonyms for "B" and "H", but this would make the k-format-family consistent.
Since this is the proposal that MAL just came up with also, it seems to be a manifest idea (unless it was also MAL who proposed this the last time around, in which case it might only be manifest to him). If that meets all requirements, go for it - I'm just not sure how I would use for plain int, since I don't know its size in advance.
I grabbed it from the old discussion, so there's a good chance MAL came up with it at that time. But Guido mumbled somthing about "k1"=="B" and "k2"=="H" and that being overkill, and then the discussion stopped. Hence my question: is k1/k2/k4/k8 what it's going to be? -- - Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com> http://www.cwi.nl/~jack - - If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman -