The main reason for not using lowercase in squeak was Dan extension of number with radix plus exponent. 16r8e7 -> 16r8 * (16 raisedTo: 7) and the Float variations...
If you decided to abandon this notation, then go with either upper or lower. But a bit of consistency could help... Nicolas 2010/2/23 Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]>: > Ok thanks. > > " > The UUID spec (RFC 4122) allows both upper and lower case hex digits, so I > don't see a reason not to. > > " > Bert > > > On Feb 23, 2010, at 10:43 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:25 PM, stephane ducasse <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> in pharo >> >> #[122 43 213 7] hex = '7A2BD507' >> >> in squeak >> >> #[122 43 213 7] hex = '7a2bd507' >> >> do you think that it makes a difference? >> >> >> Much of the "rest of the world" (e.g. gdb, md5sum) uses lower case. >> Personally I find lower-case much easier to read because I find the >> lower-case letters visually more different from the digits than the upper >> case letters. For these two reasons I prefer lower-case. I haven't always >> been this way. I used to prefer upper case because I think the upper case >> letters look neater, having the same height as the digits. But now I prefer >> legibility over neatness. >> >> 2¢ >> >> Eliot >> >> Stef >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
