On 2/1/06, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro gjc@inescporto.pt wrote:
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 17:17 -0500, Andrew Koenig wrote:
I am personally partial to allowing an optional radix (in decimal) followed by the letter r at the beginning of a literal, so 19, 8r23, and 16r13 would all represent the same value.
For me, adding the radix to the right instead of left looks nicer: 23r8, 13r16, etc., since a radix is almost like a unit, and units are always to the right. Plus, we already use suffix characters to the right, like 10L. And I seem to recall an old assembler (a z80 assembler, IIRC :P) that used a syntax like 10h and 11b for hex an bin radix.
ffr16 #16rff or 255 Iamadeadparrotr36 # 36rIamadeadparrot or 3120788520272999375597
Suffix syntax for bases higher than 10 is ambiguous with variable names. Prefix syntax is not.
-- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus