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 XAA02162; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 23:40:46 +0100 (MET) 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 XAA20249 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 23:40:45 +0100 (MET) Received: from plinky.bolt-action.com (node-d8e9cca3.powerinter.net [216.233.204.163]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g16Mein23083 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 23:40:44 +0100 (MET) Received: from checkerlap.d6.com (node-d8e9cca2.powerinter.net [216.233.204.162]) by plinky.bolt-action.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g16MhCW30472; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:43:18 -0800 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020206143609.00db7ee0@arda.pair.com> X-Sender: checker@arda.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 14:40:17 -0800 To: fvdp@decis.be, caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr From: Chris Hecker Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Suggestion for Int32.rotate In-Reply-To: <3C61958D.C03D2463@decis.be> References: <20020205000643.A31440@gogol.zorgol> <20020206190151.A9371@pauillac.inria.fr> <20020206210814.A15985@verdot.inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk >What about 12345i32, 123456789i64, like some C(++) compilers do; that would >preserve extensibility (in case one wants 123456789i128 in the future), >and makes the value types clearer and more consistent, >even though it makes the actual values somewhat less readable, specially >if one uses an uppercase I. ('N' or (why not) 'L' could be used instead.) >For native ints we could then chose either 12345i or 12345n. And keep >the other one for arbitrary-sized integers. I agree with this. Better to give absolute bit lengths in the syntax than= to make more abbreviations. But yes, 1234i32 is unreadable. 1234n32 is= better. 1234N32 is okay as well. >Just my =800.02 worth of suggestions... I can live with L and LL. Same here about L and LL (worth $0.0173425 at today's rate). Chris ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr