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bug#7877: sleep takes undocumented hex args
From: |
James Cloos |
Subject: |
bug#7877: sleep takes undocumented hex args |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:00:40 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> "JM" == Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
JM> I see no significant utility in accepting hex floats. Do you?
JM> If you're concerned about errors in conversion or the efficiency
JM> of the conversion process, then you probably don't want to use
JM> the sleep command in the first place.
the reason would be those cases where hex float literals are the default
output format for some given language.
I don't know that any exist now, but I also don't see any reason to
preclude them.
Hex floats are, generally speaking, a nice progression.
-JimC
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James Cloos <address@hidden> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
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bug#7877: sleep takes undocumented hex args, Pádraig Brady, 2011/01/21
bug#7877: sleep 5 -4, jidanni, 2011/01/24
bug#7877: sleep 5 -4, jidanni, 2011/01/25