[OpenBIOS] Changing toke's default to from decimal to hex?

Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk
Mon Apr 26 17:27:48 CEST 2010


Stefan Reinauer wrote:

> toke merely defaults to decimal whereas openbios defaults to hex.
> 
> You can get one or the other by using the word "hex" or "decimal" in
> your code before using any numbers. This is strongly recommended in
> order to keep code portable.
> 
> Now, the question is: should we change the default to "hex" in toke?

I think the default should match what is in the OF spec, whether that be 
decimal or hex, and all of openbios/tok/detok should agree. I know was 
bitten in my Fcode work several times when copy/pasting examples between 
an openbios-unix session and a test file I was attempting to run through 
toke.


ATB,

Mark.

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