Re: Oct parser vs octet parser

Richard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.parsers.spirit.general
Organization multi-cellular, biological
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In article <CAMEoF_FZ26mTAKuyNgGcgP-Dp5eXvyOcduuENdswBgWhDLEg3g@mail.gmail.com>,
    Michael Powell <[email protected]> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 7:11 AM, Mikael Asplund <[email protected]> wrote:
> > From the page you linked: "Parse an octal integer into an unsigned"... it p
arses an octal (base 8)  number, as opposed to a decimal or hexadecimal number.
> 
> Thanks, that's what I was thinking, but it wasn't especially clear.
> 
> And hex? (digit | char_('a', 'f') | char_('A', 'F'))?
> 
> If so, why not just say so and make it clear?

Are you saying that the following phrases are unclear?

binary integer
octal integer
hexadecimal integer

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