suffixes
Can someone explain the suffixes alittle vetter to me? I read the tutorial on the site of constants that includes suffixes and it just conpletely confusrd me I dont understand that part at all. Also octal decimal and hexadecimal? What are those?
Suffixes are just a way to tell the compiler that you wish a literal value to have a specific type.
For example, if you type
...then the compiler will assume it is a double. That shouldn't normally matter, but you may wish it to be a float. Use a suffix to tell the compiler to make it a float and not a double:
For octal, etc... there are different ways of writing the same number. You are used to the Arabic method, where we use the digits 0 through 9 (ten different values -- making numbers written this way radix=10 numbers, or decimal numbers). Try some google-fu to learn more about binary, octal, and hexadecimal.
Good luck!
For example, if you type
0.0 ...then the compiler will assume it is a double. That shouldn't normally matter, but you may wish it to be a float. Use a suffix to tell the compiler to make it a float and not a double:
0.0f For octal, etc... there are different ways of writing the same number. You are used to the Arabic method, where we use the digits 0 through 9 (ten different values -- making numbers written this way radix=10 numbers, or decimal numbers). Try some google-fu to learn more about binary, octal, and hexadecimal.
Good luck!
So would you still have to say what it is?
Like are these two the same?
Like are these two the same?
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Yessir you still have to declare what it is (generally, not including templates, or the c++11 auto keyword)
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