From: "Eric C. Cooper" <ecc@cmu.edu>
To: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Suggestion for Int32.rotate
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 22:25:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020207032544.GA2482@cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020207020735.A577@ice.gerd-stolpmann.de>
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 02:07:35AM +0100, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:
> Why not allow "_" in integer literals, so one can write
>
> 12345_i32, 123456789_i64, 123_456_789_i64, 123456789_nat,
> 123456789_big (for bigints). I think this kind of suffix is easier
> to remember than a single letter.
I like Gerd's suggestion. Two others:
- Please support both signed and unsigned (or "int" and "card")
literals of each width, perhaps using _s32 and _u32 etc.
We would also need the unsigned analogs of Int32 and Int64 modules.
- Slightly off-topic: add hexadecimal character literals '\0xNN' At
least once a year, I assume that '\010' should be *octal* 10, like
in C. Since you can't fix that without breaking old code, it would
be nice to have the option of using hex char literals in new code.
Of course the meta-solution would be for Daniel to give us an
extensible lexer. :-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-07 3:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-04 23:06 Berke Durak
2002-02-06 18:01 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-02-06 20:08 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-02-06 20:43 ` Frederic van der Plancke
2002-02-06 22:40 ` Chris Hecker
2002-02-07 1:07 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2002-02-07 3:05 ` Brian Rogoff
2002-02-07 3:25 ` Eric C. Cooper [this message]
2002-02-07 13:49 ` Thorsten Ohl
2002-02-07 13:55 ` Remi VANICAT
2002-02-07 16:32 ` [Caml-list] More syntax: _ in numbers, backquote infix op's Christian Lindig
2002-02-06 21:02 ` [Caml-list] integer types and their literals james woodyatt
2002-02-06 21:36 ` [Caml-list] Suggestion for Int32.rotate Berke Durak
2002-02-07 1:15 ` Gerd Stolpmann
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