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

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Yaniv Abraham<yaniv1abraham@gmail.com>  writes:
>  C/C++ can adopt the notation that technical hardware manuals are using
>  for a long time of using the `_' character to separate between 4 or 8
>  nibbles (4bit) sequences of digits (e.g. instead of reading
>  0xFFFF58AE3BBE33AC I think it will be much easier to read
>  0xFFFF58AE_3BBE33AC or even 0xFFFF_58AE_3BBE_33AC).

I think it would be a very nice feature (no idea if it causes any
conflicts tho).

BTW, it would be useful for _all_ bases, not just hex...

-miles

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An hexadecimal digits group separator for long 64bit addresses Yaniv Abraham <yaniv1abraham@gmail.com> - 2011-06-16 12:07 -0600
  Re: An hexadecimal digits group separator for long 64bit addresses Miles Bader<miles@gnu.org> - 2011-06-17 13:17 -0600
  Re: An hexadecimal digits group separator for long 64bit addresses Ed Smith-Rowland<3dw4rd@verizon.net> - 2011-06-17 13:18 -0600
  Re: An hexadecimal digits group separator for long 64bit addresses Victor Bazarov<v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> - 2011-06-17 13:16 -0600
    Re: An hexadecimal digits group separator for long 64bit addresses Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> - 2011-06-25 14:06 -0600
      Re: An hexadecimal digits group separator for long 64bit addresses Yakov Galka <ybungalobill@gmail.com> - 2011-06-27 13:38 -0600
        Re: An hexadecimal digits group separator for long 64bit addresses Philip Guenther <guenther@gmail.com> - 2011-06-30 10:30 -0600
          Re: An hexadecimal digits group separator for long 64bit addresses Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> - 2011-08-07 13:07 -0600
            Re: An hexadecimal digits group separator for long 64bit addresses Florian Kutscherauer<florian.kutscherauer@gmx.at> - 2011-08-10 11:50 -0600
              Re: An hexadecimal digits group separator for long 64bit addresses Ed Smith-Rowland <3dw4rd@verizon.net> - 2011-08-11 08:19 -0600
                Re: An hexadecimal digits group separator for long 64bit addresses Yakov Galka<ybungalobill@gmail.com> - 2011-08-15 07:46 -0600
                Re: An hexadecimal digits group separator for long 64bit addresses "Martin B." <0xCDCDCDCD@gmx.at> - 2011-08-16 21:29 -0600
                Re: An hexadecimal digits group separator for long 64bit addresses Ed Smith-Rowland <3dw4rd@verizon.net> - 2011-08-18 07:53 -0600
                Re: An hexadecimal digits group separator for long 64bit addresses Leo Equinox Gaspard <ekinox1995@gmail.com> - 2011-08-16 21:29 -0600

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