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From: | Zack Weinberg |
Subject: | Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux |
Date: | Tue, 07 Dec 2004 01:52:56 -0800 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Nathan Myers <address@hidden> writes: > To me this is uncontroversial. However, I see no merit at all in > the hexadecimal presentation of hashes. The only issue I see is that > it is not instantly obvious what the best alternative to hex is. I'm going to be horribly contrarian and say that I would rather see hex than any of the so-far proposed alternatives. Hex, I know what that is, it's a big honking number. I don't have intuitions about what nonsense strings (of any of the proposed variants) mean. zw
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