Am Montag, den 05.07.2010, 05:34 -0400 schrieb Joseph Smith:
My personal favourite is lowercase hex (don't need to hit shift that way), but I don't know what you prefer.
In my opinion uppercase is only meant for preprocessing directives and macros, everything else should be lower case including hex values. That is my 2 cents worth.
OK, we heard enough points for lowercase, let me explain why I prefer uppercase hex letters. Please don't read that as a request to change flashrom to upper case, though. If you all agree on lowercase, that's fine with me.
All (decimal) digits are full-height symbols. So I prefer the extra digits to be full-height too, so the number has an rectangular outline. A block of four digit hex numbers has the same outline for all numbers only when using uppercase letters.
In these two columns, I consider the right one to look more cluttered, for example. 0x1123 0x1123 0x145A 0x145a 0x7BA0 0x7ba0
At the same time, i prefer the lowercase "x" in 0xDEADBEEF, so that the "0x" prefix stands out.
Regards, Michael Karcher