Adam Olsen wrote: > 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.
I'm not really expecting the standard to be changed. But I do think it's silly for a modern C implementation for a modern CPU to take the letter of the C standard as implying that they have to use the word "byte" as though it meant something other than 8 bits. In the present day, that can only lead to confusion. -- 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
