Re: Signed and Unsigned integers in Tcl


Andreas Leitgeb schrieb:
Anyway I wonder in what way a leading "+" would have been
inferior to the trailing "u".

"+" means "positive", or "one or more" in regexps. Signed numbers can
also be positive :)
As "u" also means "unsigned" in [format] (though stand-alone, not as a
modifier), I think using "u2 is following the principle of least
surprise.

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