>> BTW, I was thinking once that numeral literals like 4k or 10G >> (meaning 4*2**10, 10*2**30) would be very nice. What do you think? > I think the meaning of the suffices are sufficiently vague as to make me > uncomfortable supporting them. Is 1K 1024 or 1000? I can make a good case > for both, and that's never a good sign.
There's always the possibility of supporting SI's binary prefixes ;) http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html -- Trond Michelsen