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 <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>:
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 <stephane.ducasse@free.fr> 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. Â 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. Â For these two reasons I prefer lower-case. Â I haven't always been this way. Â I used to prefer upper case because I think the upper case letters look neater, having the same height as the digits. Â But now I prefer legibility over neatness.
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Eliot
Stef
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