Re: [boost] [binary-int] pre-release available

From: Joel Eidsath (jeidsath_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-06 12:20:49

Scott Schurr wrote:

>
>David Abrahams and Jeff Flinn noted that 'nibbles' is the
>common spelling they have seen.  And, personally, I've always 
>seen a 4-bit entity written as nibble.  So possible syntaxes
>for the template based solution, in the order they have been
>suggested, might be:
>
> 
>  
>
I just looked it up in Knuth.  He uses "nybbles."  (Footnote pg. 125 of 
Fundamental Algorithms Third Edition.)