On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:14:52PM +0000, Graham Barr wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 11:12:15PM -0800, Dave Storrs wrote:
> > 24*60*60:10 # one day in seconds, easy representation > > And the advantage of that over 24*60*60*10 would be ? Well, for one thing, my version means 1 day and yours means 10 days. > Are we not just getting too carried away with all this base > of literals. Perhaps. I don't feel strongly enough about it to argue it if people don't like the idea. > I also think -documentation is the wrong place to discuss this. In all seriousness, where would you suggest it should be discussed? I thought part of the purpose of this list was to define all the corner cases...surely, whether or not the radix can be an expression is a corner case. --Dks
