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>From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] 
>Sent: 13 October 2005 15:02
>To: piclist@mit.edu
>Subject: RE: [PIC] Success (Was:- Very Newbie -Progress!)
>
>
>Michael Rigby-Jones wrote :
>
>> I think you are misinterpreting Olins comments.  He dosen't
>> wan't to abolish the use of decimal bases in MPASM, but 
>> rather always make decimal the default radix,...
>
>Yes, you can, but I don't think that was the point.
>

>Jinx wrote :
>
>> For a long maths routine it would be probably preferable to 
>use radix 
>> decimal, but I don't see the harm in using the odd .<xxx> here and 
>> there in radix hex for convenience / readability
>
>Again, it wasn't about default radix, realy, I read it such as 
>the prefered formats are d'xx', h'xx', o'xxx', b'xxxxxxxx' and a'x'.
>

That was never explicitly mentioned that I can see, just the dot notation for decimal.

I personally think they are horribly clunky formats, though they are at least consistent for all bases.  Perhaps because I primarily use C and therefore am more familiar with 1234 and 0x1234 (shame MPASM dosen't use 0bxxxxxxxx for binary).  Does anyone actually use octal base?  I can't remember ever writing anything that would have required it.

Regards

Mike

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