On 3/31/11 10:52 AM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
BTW, what letter code is proposed for half-floats? The only unassigned letter in the word "half" is 'a'. Maybe it is time to extend struct and buffer format specification to include field bit-width?
The proposed letter code is 'e', as used in numpy. I'm not sure of the logic that went behind the choice, except perhaps that 'e' is near 'd' and 'f'. It's not too late to change, though. I don't know of any other group that has decided on such any kind of letter code for half-floats. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco