On 3/15/07, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Until now, I skipped the octal thread. Now I read this and wondered, "what the hell is 0t6065 supposed to mean" and only from the context I gathered that it would be an octal literal... Seriously, nobody, even coming from another language, will be able to look at it and say, "yes, that's an octal literal."
Yes. Raymond's (and Guido's and others') point is that hardly anybody knows what an octal literal is in the first place, and the less-explicit syntax of '06065' gives confusing results to those who don't. You can't accidentily use this new syntax. -- Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
_______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
