Re:

[Martins Krikis <mkrikis@yahoo.com>]

--- "Julian Satran (Actcom)"
<Julian_Satran@actcom.net.il> wrote:
> Leading 0 where forbidden after a brief discussion.
> As for unlikely to be used - I could argue for the
> contrary - as in the examples I gave in a previous
> notes.
> Many string copied from humanly readable documents
> tend to be decimal-encoded.

Julian,

You are right about the leading 0, thus Bill's 
example was a bad one. He is right however about
the inability to express the leading nul-bytes of
a binary string when it is encoded in decimal.

The examples you gave previously (unless some
have escaped me) were really bad. I have yet to
see a true "binary string" (and not a number)
encoded in decimal.

Martins Krikis, Intel Corp.

Disclaimer: these opinions are mine and may not
            be those of my employer.


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