21 Jul
2021
21 Jul
'21
10:27 a.m.
Dear Simon,
In message 20210720132940.1171011-14-sjg@chromium.org you wrote:
In some cases it is useful to be able to supply a binary value to a command. Use the '0y' prefix for this (binarY).
We also don't handle octal input yet, and also miss a number of other interesting numberbases, like 42.
But ... do we really *need* all this stuff?
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Best regards,
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