George asked:
Hello David,Quick question if you don't mind regarding your convention in SKB for your use of the letter "t"
I've noticed t seems to refer to timer number in old scheme, but
tt )
tttt ) I'm wondering what the difference is.
tttttt )
George, I confess! We have not always been consistent with the conventions over the many years we have been making SPLat.
We tend to use more t's (or whatever) as the number of bits represented increases. A single t, as you say, is what I often use to denote a timer number with the old timer.
tt will generally mean a single byte timer duration, though I won't claim to be consistent (hey, if the politicians can get away with it why shouldn't we?!)
tttt and tttttt are used somewhat more consistently to denote 2-bytes and 3-bytes respectively, although with the old SPLat timers the timer argument is 15 bits (1 - 32,767), and for PAUSE the range depends on the dialect you are using. tttttt is quite consistently used as the argument (duration) for the newer SuperTimers, which have a 24-bit value with range 1 - 16,777,215, which goes from 10mS to 46.6 hours.
At the end of the day you need to look at the body text of the SKB entry.
