On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Cournapeau wrote: > > > Maybe everyone understands it as 8 bits, but it has always been wrong. > > It may not be officially written down anywhere, but > almost everyone in the world understands a byte to mean > 8 bits. When you go into a computer store and ask for > 256MB of RAM, you don't expect to be asked "What size > bytes would that be, then, sir?" > > So it's a de facto standard, and one that works perfectly > well. Going against it is both futile and unnecessary, > as far as I can see.
Sure, *now*, but C inherited their definition from a day when it wasn't so clear cut. It may be obsolete today, but good luck getting them to change the standard. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus _______________________________________________ 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
