Talk:Count in octal: Difference between revisions

::::: Ok, it might a terminology thing. When I say native, I mean builtin to the language (possibly to an abstract level?). Lets take a variable A=19. From a language point of view, it is stored as a single decimal integer of value 19, from the point of view of the computer, it is stored in binary digits, but that is not a language concern. The native format of the variable is a decimal integer and its value 19, so I would say that the language has native decimal support. Does that make sense? Now, if the language also has native octal support, it could output that number as octal using a statement without evaluation code (again from a language point of view, the cpu might be doing something underneath, but that is not a language concern). If it does not have native octal support, then some digit crunching routines would have to be written within the language, to produce the required output. --00:13, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

::::::So then what language has native octal support? Or native anything but decimal support? I know in Java you can say "int a = 0xFF;" but when you print it without anything extra it will come out as "255". Does that still count as "native" to you? --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 00:57, 7 June 2011 (UTC)