Binary magnitudes for numeric literals

[Arsenii A.]

Hi!

Wouldn’t it be nice to allow numeric literals like 512Ki or 4Gi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix) in some future version of Ceylon?

[Gavin King]

We could easily support that, but do you have a specific usecase in
mind? I can't particularly think of anywhere this would be useful.

Open a feature request in ceylon-spec if you like...

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[Arsenii A.]

You’re right, by now I can’t think up a reasonable use case. One could write

Integer someHardcodedOrDefaultLengthLimit = 3Mi;

but that default value is pretty unnatural on its own (why not 30571111 instead?)…

OK, if I come up with something better, I’ll make a feature request.