[offtopic] Re: SV: Ping - error?

David Ford (david@kalifornia.com)
Fri, 12 Jun 1998 06:47:44 -0700 (PDT)


On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Brian Schau wrote:
> You're right. But is it really desirable? If, for some reason, you
> need to ping an address generated by a program which outputs the address
> in 4 triplets, you get a surprise.

yes, it is desirable.

> Might it not be a better idea to stress that octal values and
> hexadecimal values should be escaped, ie. \OOO (for octal) and \xXX (for
> hex)?

the natural denotation being like 0xnn or 0nn is easier to use than \0nn
or \xnn especially for those in this neck of the woods that write code a
lot. using a format that is common is easier.

you can easily generate a little script that prints 3cell numbers and
operates on natural numbers.

-d

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