Re: Two Thousand and Eight

msb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Mark Brader) wrote:

>Eben King:
>>> When I turned 32, I wrote my friend and told him I'd say I was 0x20,
>>> because that sounded better.
>
>Greg Goss:
>> I've always wondered at the leading 0 used for this context by
>> C-speakers.  Why can't you go directly into the x?
>
>Because x20 is a perfectly legitimate variable name.

Right.  Dunno how I missed that.  I still like PL/I's idea of making
it a particular kind of literal, inside quotes, with a modifier.
-- 
Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27