"Michael Lazzaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> Note that \b conflicts with backspace. I'd rather keep backspace than
> binary, personally; I have yet to feel the need to call out a char in
> binary. :-) Or we can make it dependent on the trailing digits, or
> require the brackets, or require backspace to be spelt differently.
>
> But I think we'd definitely like to introduce \d.
>
Our numeric literals use # for radix stuff. So perhaps we could use "\#..."
to introduce explicit codings:
"\#d13"
"\#h0d"
"\#b1101"
"\#{ 1<<6 - 20 * 2 - 9#1:2 }"
would all be synonyms!
Dave.
ps. how did this thread migrate from p6d to p6l?
