From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA05182; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:17:44 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA04972 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:17:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f32JHfj08651; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:17:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from checkerlap.d6.com ([64.163.212.241]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0GB600CT2IVYZC@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net>; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:17:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 12:17:50 -0800 From: Chris Hecker Subject: Re: [Caml-list] petty complaints In-reply-to: <20010402153244.D30450@pauillac.inria.fr> X-Sender: def6@shell16.ba.best.com To: Xavier Leroy , Brian Rogoff Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Message-id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010402121231.039de910@shell16.ba.best.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" References: Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk >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... ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr