Anyone for a Hex (literal)?

[hopscc]

Is there any reason cobra shouldnt have support for hex literals similarly to what i,t does for integers decimals and floats?

Purely for user and readability convenience.
The reason I ask is that I was writing some bit bashing code and I'm unhappy with my role as a hex to int preprocessor for the compiler (:-)

[Charles]

Yeah, I have no opposition to a hex literal. Just never got around to it.

I wrote a long meandering response to this which I have replaced with conclusions:

hex literal: 0xA3FE
octal: 0o777
binary: 0b1101

So the prefix is a zero digit followed by the letter 'x', 'o' or 'b'. Always lower case. Give a nice error message if upper case is used.

I'd accept a patch that did all three (and included tests and IntermediateReleaseNotes.text).

[hopscc]

Hoped so
You're sorta in luck - I got a patch for hex (0x syntax ) with test file and INtRelNotes -
didnt think about octal and binary ( though off the top of my head dont think octal is worth the effort - whos got a minicomputer these days)

I'll post what I've got when I get it cleaned and finish patch testing it.
Hmm binary ....

[hopscc]

Heres the patch for HexLit

[hopscc]

Latest has binary ( and octal shudder) support and allows use of _ separators.