[fpc-pascal] the unexplained 666

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Mon Mar 2 14:06:45 CET 2015


On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 04:29:31PM +0100, Mattias Gaertner 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?

Decimal and hexadecimal from the start, octal and binary since early 1.9.x
versions.

The *nix rtl is from christmas 2003. (1.1 versions)



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