Martin v. Löwis wrote: > 3.6 byte > addressable unit of data storage large enough to hold any > member of the basic character set of the execution > environment
Blarg. Well, I think the wording of that part of the standard is braindamaged. The word "byte" already has a pre-existing meaning outside of C, and the C standard shouldn't be redefining it for its own purposes. This is like a financial document that defines "dollar" as "the unit of currency in use in the country concerned". Thoroughly confusing and unnecessary. Particularly since they seem to just be defining "byte" to mean the same thing as "char". Why not just use the term "char" in the first place? -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
