hyc(a)symas.com wrote: OK. Does it make any sense to just move to a hex-only syntax, perfixed by "0x", with no sign as you mentioned earlier, or should we preserve compatibility with the original form, where the minus sign is allowed while a number not starting with "0x" should be treated as decimal? The latter would be probably better, but we'd need to convert decimal to hex, and this could fail if decimals are too large. p. Ing. Pierangelo Masarati OpenLDAP Core Team SysNet s.r.l. via Dossi, 8 - 27100 Pavia - ITALIA http://www.sys-net.it --------------------------------------- Office: +39 02 23998309 Mobile: +39 333 4963172 Email: pierangelo.masarati(a)sys-net.it ---------------------------------------