From edd @ending from debi@n@org  Sat Aug 25 15:46:17 2018
From: edd @ending from debi@n@org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 08:46:17 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Where does L come from?
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On 25 August 2018 at 08:26, Hadley Wickham wrote:
| Would someone mind pointing to me to the inspiration for the use of
| the L suffix to mean "integer"?  This is obviously hard to google for,
| and the R language definition
| (https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-lang.html#Constants)
| is silent.

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/integer-literal-in-c-cpp-prefixes-suffixes/

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/integer_literal

And many similar references if you Google for 'c language integer suffix'

Dirk

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[Rd] Where does L come from?
Dirk Eddelbuettel