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<body style="font: 10pt/normal Segoe UI; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><div class="GroupWiseMessageBody" id="GroupWiseSection_1605640545000_KLE@msktd.com_1FEF159614D20000B1ED8700B3004500_"><div>I'll second that one!<br></div><div class="GroupWiseMessageBody" id="GroupWiseSection_1605640398000_zendto@zend.to"><span class="GroupwiseReplyHeader">>>> John Thurston via ZendTo <zendto@zend.to> 11/17/2020 2:13 PM >>><br></span><div><div>Computers are good at doing math. Can we have the option of including </div><div>units on some preferences?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm thinking, particularly, about:</div><div> maxBytesForDropoff</div><div> maxBytesForFile</div><div> maxBytesForChecksum</div><div> maxBytesForEncryption</div><div><br></div><div>These are currently specified in bytes. This is generally a long number </div><div>which is hard to read and easy to stumble over. May we have the default </div><div>continue to be "number of bytes" but have it accept an optional </div><div>unit-suffix? For example:</div><div> 'maxBytesForDropoff' => 25769790582,</div><div>could be specified as:</div><div> 'maxBytesForDropoff' => 24G,</div><div><br></div><div>Old preferences would continue to work, and new preferences would be </div><div>easier to read.</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>--</div><div>Do things because you should, not just because you can.</div><div><br></div><div>John Thurston 907-465-8591</div><div>John.Thurston@alaska.gov</div><div>Department of Administration</div><div>State of Alaska</div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>ZendTo mailing list</div><div>ZendTo@zend.to</div><a href="http://jul.es/mailman/listinfo/zendto">http://jul.es/mailman/listinfo/zendto</a><div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>