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From:
Michel Rodriguez
Date:
October 10, 2001 10:03
Subject:
Re: NaN semantics
Message ID:
1002732954.20238.37.camel@mirlin.xmltwig.com
On Wed, 2001-10-10 at 17:32, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 05:12 PM 10/10/2001 +0200, RaFaL Pocztarski wrote:
>
> >BTW, I was thinking once that numeral literals like 4k or 10G
> >(meaning 4*2**10, 10*2**30) would be very nice. What do you think?
>
> I think the meaning of the suffices are sufficiently vague as to make me
> uncomfortable supporting them. Is 1K 1024 or 1000? I can make a good case
> for both, and that's never a good sign.
I must say I'd like it too, and I don't care which one you choose, this
would mostly be used by sysadmins to sort the output of du and the
likes, so it really doesn't matter.
Michel Rodriguez
Perl & XML
http://www.xmltwig.com
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