[Geany-Devel] small bug in utils_strtod()

[Lex Trotman]

On 5 December 2013 07:26, Tory Gaurnier <tory.gaurnier at linuxmail.org> wrote:

> No offense, but a paint store isn't a very good comparison, because they
> have 100s of "named" colors, and you can get 1000s of mixes that then have
> their own names, when it comes to computer science we use RGB, we can't
> crack open a can of green and mix it with egg shells white, we use HEX or
> DEC values to mix red green and blue. And HEX is hardly cryptic, first two
> digits are red, middle two digits are green, and last two digits are blue.
> A program/API should always support HEX, and it's good practice to also
> support DEC values and named colors.
>
>
And it doesn't understand Gamboge, a colour name that has been in use at
least since the 1600s.  #e49b0f :(

Cheers
Lex
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