On Friday 09 March 2007 18:06, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 17:08:05 -0700, Wesley J Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> said: > > I don't object to hex (although I dislike prefix-less hex notation > > quite a bit in general), but this looks like it was chosen just to > > avoid having to parse more than one digit or something. Or was this > > actually thoroughly thought out and chosen for a different reason? > > > > Along those lines, what are we going to do when/if we have more than > > 15 choices on a ballot? It's not an unthinkable situation. Would we > > not call it hex, but continue the alphabet to use G-Z? Or would we > > enter choice number 17 as 11? > > The last would be silly, and would lead us into the same > representational changes devotee is trying to avoid. > > For those too lazy to look up the code, devotee actually works > in Base36 now. Hey, you said "hex", not me. Base36 sounds much more reasonable. Thanks for the all insults BTW, I have learned to always expect that from you. -- Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> <xmpp:wjl@icecavern.net> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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