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[Caml-list] Suggestion for Int32.rotate

Berke Durak
- Xavier Leroy
  - Daniel de Rauglaudre
    - Frederic van der Plancke
      - Chris Hecker
      - Gerd Stolpmann
        
        Eric C. Cooper
        
        Brian Rogoff
        
        Thorsten Ohl
        
        Remi VANICAT
        
        Christian Lindig
  - james woodyatt
  - Berke Durak
- Gerd Stolpmann

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Chris Hecker <checker@d...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Suggestion for Int32.rotate


>What about 12345i32, 123456789i64, like some C(++) compilers do; that would
>preserve extensibility (in case one wants 123456789i128 in the future),
>and makes the value types clearer and more consistent,
>even though it makes the actual values somewhat less readable, specially
>if one uses an uppercase I. ('N' or (why not) 'L' could be used instead.)
>For native ints we could then chose either 12345i or 12345n. And keep
>the other one for arbitrary-sized integers.

I agree with this.  Better to give absolute bit lengths in the syntax than to make more abbreviations.  But yes, 1234i32 is unreadable.  1234n32 is better.  1234N32 is okay as well.

>Just my €0.02 worth of suggestions... I can live with L and LL.

Same here about L and LL (worth $0.0173425 at today's rate).

Chris


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