[fpc-pascal] the unexplained 666

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Sun Mar 1 16:29:31 CET 2015


On Sun, 1 Mar 2015 16:11:06 +0100 (CET)
marcov at stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) wrote:

> In our previous episode, Mattias Gaertner said:
> > Why not write &666? Maybe some religious reasons? ;)
> 
> No, simply that octal literal support is newer than the *nix rtl.

ok, although then again: When came binary and hexadecimal?

 
> If you want to work on this, please fix the constants in the FreeBSD console
> unit too, there are another couple of hundred such cases there  :-)

My main concern was the lack of comments/documentation.

Mattias



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