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From: Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com>
To: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>, Brian Rogoff <bpr@best.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] petty complaints
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 12:17:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010402121231.039de910@shell16.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010402153244.D30450@pauillac.inria.fr>


>That's amusing, I didn't know about this feature of Ada.

Perl allows the same thing for ints and floats.  Not sure if that's an argument for or against.  :)

http://www.perl.com/pub/doc/manual/html/pod/perldata.html#Scalar_value_constructors

Chris

PS.  I'd like to take this opportunity to thank whoever is responsible for having the 0b syntax for ints in OCaml!  I'd also like to suggest that printf be modified to output a binary format int...except %b is taken, but apparently %B is not...

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-04-02 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-02  4:26 Brian Rogoff
2001-04-02 13:32 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-04-02 15:24   ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-02 20:17   ` Chris Hecker [this message]
2001-04-02 19:45     ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-09  5:23 ` John Max Skaller
2001-04-09 15:34 ` Christian Lindig
2001-04-09 16:01   ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-09 16:24   ` David McClain
2001-04-09 16:29   ` Pierre Weis
2001-04-10 22:25     ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2001-04-24 15:23 [Caml-list] Petty complaints Brian Rogoff
2001-04-25  6:55 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2001-04-25  7:00   ` Fabrice Le Fessant

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