"Patrick Maupin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >That's a great idea all the way around. Another possible syntax would >be [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. I don't think that could mean >anything >currently.
It's a terrible idea all the way around. Be reasonable: in modern code, only decimal, hex and binary constants are of general use at all. Anything else is very much special-purpose code. I have heard users of languages that use a general number base notation (16#fce2# in Ada and the similar syntax in Erlang) complain about how this buys them nothing compared to the much nicer 0x... syntax of Python and C for the bases that people actually use. I have frequently wanted binary constants when doing actual programming in Python - the 0b1101 syntax would certainly be handy. Perl allows it, but I hope that is not an argument against it - it would be even more useful in Python. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
