On Wed, 2001-10-10 at 17:32, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 05:12 PM 10/10/2001 +0200, RaFaL Pocztarski wrote: > > >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.
I must say I'd like it too, and I don't care which one you choose, this would mostly be used by sysadmins to sort the output of du and the likes, so it really doesn't matter. Michel Rodriguez Perl & XML http://www.xmltwig.com
