Re: Cross-platform programming question...

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Dave Althoff Jr" <dalloff@gcfn.org> wrote in message
news:bnesff$b90$1@acme.gcfn.org...
>
> Just a simple one...
>
> When we refer to a hexadecimal number, we designate it like this:
>
> $FB6F
>
> When anybody else does it, they do it like this:
>
> 0xFB6F
>
> I don't know about you, but I find that really confusing.  Someone sent me
> a look-up table for an I/O routine and it took me the longest time to
> figure out what it meant because of all that 0x crap in there.
>
> (I have no formal training on any other system.  I was taught some
Applesoft
> and some 6502, everything else I know is self-taught)
>
> Now we've been around a lot longer than most of those other programming
> systems...what in the world possessed them not to use the $ standard that
> we established decades ago??  Am I missing something important here?  8-)

Actually, the 0xFB6F is an earlier notation form.
It can also be notated in this way,   FB6Fh

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