[Gambas-user] Why &H in color code

[Pozzo]

Hi All!
Today I was just playing with gambas to get more familiar and when I 
tried to change the background color of my label1 I discovered that I 
have to write "&H" at the begining of my color code and "&" ad the end. 
I know that this is not very important and not so difficult but I don't 
understand why I have to do this. Gambas is near the 1.0 version so I 
think that it must be the more easy possible. I don't know why exactly I 
must write the "&H" maybe to specify if I'm writing in decimal or Hex 
but I think that this option could be translate in a simple menu.

Greatings

Maurizio