On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 11:12:15PM -0800, Dave Storrs wrote: > Hmm, interesting. Just as an aside, this gives me an idea: would it be > feasible to allow the base to be specified as an expression instead of > a constant? (I'm pretty sure it would be useful.) For example: > > 4294967296:1.2.3.4 # working with a really big base, hard to grok > 2**32:1.2.3.4 # ahhhhh, much better > > 24*60*60:10 # one day in seconds, easy representation
And the advantage of that over 24*60*60*10 would be ? > Or how about run-time evaluated versions? > > # Set a timer to run for either a day or an hour, depending > $timer = 60*60*($use_days ? 24 : 1):10 Then it is no longer a literal is it. Are we not just getting too carried away with all this base of literals. I also think -documentation is the wrong place to discuss this. Graham.
