News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages. Parent comment

Re:Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages by WalterBright on Thursday January 05, 2023 @11:58PM (#34271152)
D's approach would be:

    0xde_ad_be_ef_00
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages by makapuf on Friday January 06, 2023 @02:02AM (#34271800)
Wouldn't endianness interfere with this notation and the preceding one?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages by unsafecast on Friday January 06, 2023 @08:06AM (#34274187)
Of course it does - endianness interferes with any sort of numeric literal. Doesn't matter if it's hex, decimal, underscored, whatever.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages by Wildgoose on Friday January 06, 2023 @08:48AM (#34274496)
I think you are missing the point - there is no endianness in normal written text, (or code), but there is endianness when that is translated to an actual number - what order are those bytes intended to be used in?

(Given they have been listed separately rather than as a single number).

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages by unsafecast on Friday January 06, 2023 @09:34AM (#34274992)
What order are the bytes in 0xabcd intended to be used in? I don't see how making it 0x[ab, cd] would be ambiguous, it's the same assumption of reading left to right.
[ Parent | on HN ]