Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libutil

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 20:21:07 +0200, Roland Illig wrote:

> I didn't eradicate _all_ hexadecimal examples, I just made each example
> use only one number base, not mix them both. There are both octal and
> hexadecimal examples in the manual page.

That's not what "prefer octal in examples" conveys.

I would also say that source code that says

  "=\x0f" "FIFTEEN\0"

aligns much better than

  "=\017FIFTEEN\0"

with its result a few lines below that has:

  BURST=0xf=FIFTEEN


-uwe