it’s a pretty common practice that constants are prefixed with k (e.g. k_pi). But what does the k mean?
Is it simply that c already meant char?
it’s a pretty common practice that constants are prefixed with k (e.g. k_pi ).
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it’s a pretty common practice that constants are prefixed with k (e.g. k_pi). But what does the k mean?
Is it simply that c already meant char?
I haven’t seen it that much, but maybe it comes from certain languages’ (the germanic ones in particular) spelling of the word constant – konstant.