Re: An hexadecimal digits group separator for long 64bit addresses

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From	Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
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Subject	Re: An hexadecimal digits group separator for long 64bit addresses
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ThosRTanner <ttanner2@bloomberg.net> writes:
>> This would clash with user-defined literals, wouldn't it?
>>
>> int operator "" _1234 (int n) { return 17; }
>>
>> 0x12cd_1234;
>
> I'd reserve literals beginning with _ for system defined use (in much
> the same way that it's considered bad style to have anything with a
> name beginning with _, although the standard only refers to _ followed
> by upper case letter).

I disagree.

Literals starting with "_" should be available for users, as they are
much more readable, and feel more natural for longer names (more than
one or two characters).  That's the reason, presumably, that many
examples one sees of user-defined literals have names starting with
"_"....

It's a separate namespace, so there's no conflict with traditional
identifiers (and "bad style" is irrelevant).

-Miles

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Re: An hexadecimal digits group separator for long 64bit addresses Magnus Fromreide <cscpp@magfr.users.lysator.liu.se> - 2011-06-23 19:32 -0600
  Re: An hexadecimal digits group separator for long 64bit addresses ThosRTanner <ttanner2@bloomberg.net> - 2011-06-25 08:51 -0600
    Re: An hexadecimal digits group separator for long 64bit addresses Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2011-06-26 20:09 -0600
  Re: An hexadecimal digits group separator for long 64bit addresses Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2011-06-25 08:50 -0600

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