On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 02:26:48PM +0100, Colin Johnston <colinj at gt86car.org.uk> wrote a message of 19 lines which said: > Best practice says avoid such info in records as does not aid debug > since mix of dec and hex No. Pure imagination on your side. There is no such "best practice". And it's not hex or dec, it is letters and digits.