BNF pickiness. (was Re: Reiability of wrong media, etc.)

From: Bill Yakowenko <yakowenk_at_cs.unc.edu>
Date: Sat Jan 23 13:38:55 1999

] ...
] There's a reason why I personally rarely reduce abbreviations all
] the way to two characters. I usually use {K|M|G}b{y|i}t[e][s]. If
] I leave it at just {K|M|G}, assume bytes.

When you use "Kbyts", "Kbite", or "KBites", what does it mean? :-)

How about {K|M|G}b{yte|it}[s]? Or even {K|M|G}{byte|bit}[s], which is
less efficient, but clearer to humans? Any good compiler would optimize
it to the former anyway.

        Cheers,
        Bill.

] --
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