Cross-platform programming question...

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

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-)

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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