But R "integers" are C "ints", as opposed to S "integers", which are C "long ints". (I suppose R never had to run on ancient hardware with 16 bit ints.)
Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Yihui Xie <x...@yihui.name> wrote: > Yeah, that was what I heard from our instructor when I was a graduate > student: L stands for Long (integer). > > Regards, > Yihui > -- > https://yihui.name > > > On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Serguei Sokol <so...@insa-toulouse.fr> > wrote: > > Le 16/06/2017 à 17:54, Henrik Bengtsson a écrit : > >> > >> I'm just curious (no complaints), what was the reason for choosing the > >> letter 'L' as a suffix for integer constants? Does it stand for > >> something (literal?), is it because it visually stands out, ..., or no > >> specific reason at all? > > > > My guess is that it is inherited form C "long integer" type (contrary to > > "short integer" or simply "integer") > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
