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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: binary constants (??)
Keywords: macro, constant, binary
Message-ID: <11708@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 29 Nov 89 19:56:02 GMT
References: <305@frf.omron.co.jp> <20830@mimsy.umd.edu> <20989@mimsy.umd.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <20989@mimsy.umd.edu> chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
>... move toward abstracts.  Those of you who are trying to design `D'
>(or `P') might consider dumping 0-octal and 0x-hex in favour of
>something sane, like <base>r<text>, 2r11001 = 8r31 = 25 = 16r19.

Don't forget to support negative bases, and (oo, oo!) while you're at
it how about Fibonacci numeration systems.  Think how useful they
would be!