13 Jul
2005
13 Jul
'05
5:28 p.m.
"Russell Hind" <rh_gmane@mac.com> wrote in message news:db3fhr$ttq$1@sea.gmane.org...
David Abrahams wrote:
Not to mention that the number is a lot easier to read when divided into nibbles ;-)
I do like that. My version never did that and I think BCB6 would cope with somewhere between 20 and 24 bits. Splitting it in to nibbles should mean it can easily cope with 32 or 64 bits which would be very useful.
IIRC, this topic was discussed and prototyped extensively several months ago on c.l.c++ and/or c.l.c++.m. Jeff Flinn