Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 03:01 this Friday (GMT):

On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 16:33:46 +0100, bart wrote:
>

Here, tell me at a glance the magnitude of
this number:
 
     10000000000

>
    #define THOUSAND 1000
    #define MILLION (THOUSAND * THOUSAND)
    #define BILLION (THOUSAND * MILLION)
>
    uint64 num = 10 * BILLION;
>
Much easier to figure out, don’t you think?

I used to do a bit of code for a codebase that did that with SECONDS and
MINUTES since (almost) every "time" variable was in milliseconds, and it
was very nice. That is just my subjective opinion, though. :P

it was more like
#define SECONDS *10
#define MINUTES SECONDS*60
#define HOURS MINUTES*60

, though. Probably would be more notably annoying to debug in weird
cases if the whole language/codebase wasnt borked spagetti :D
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