[Python-ideas] Negative hexes
Bruce Leban
bruce at leapyear.org
Tue Dec 6 01:24:45 CET 2011
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd be OK with dropping the explicit 'twos' qualifier, though - then
> the method name could just be "to_complement()".
>
That name's ambiguous since there's also one's complement as well as ten's
and nine's complements.
Also, perhaps from_twos_complement might be a clearer name than to_signed.
--- Bruce
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