From: Pete Becker on
Le Chaud Lapin wrote:
>
> A trivial fact for those who wonder, as I did, what means the 'x' in 'C
> ++0x': It is a place-holder for single decimal digit 0-9, indicating
> date of release of "specification", 2000-2009, respectively.
>

That's what it was. Now it's a hexadecimal constant prefix.

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