Re: [boost] Interest in a binary_int template for binary literals?

From: Jeff Flinn (TriumphSprint2000_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-13 12:28:57

"Russell Hind" <rh_gmane_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:db3fhr$ttq$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
> David Abrahams wrote:
>>
>> Not to mention that the number is a lot easier to read when divided
>> into nibbles ;-)
>>
>
> I do like that.  My version never did that and I think BCB6 would cope
> with somewhere between 20 and 24 bits.  Splitting it in to nibbles
> should mean it can easily cope with 32 or 64 bits which would be very
> useful.

IIRC, this topic was discussed and prototyped extensively several months ago 
on c.l.c++ and/or c.l.c++.m.

Jeff Flinn