Guido van Rossum schrieb: > On 3/15/07, Mattias Engdegård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Scientific googling reveals that most other languages that use 0x for hex use >> 0b for binary and either 0o or 0 for octal, so if "cultural compatibility" >> is important, this may influence the choice. >> >> Whatever prefix is used, it should be clearly offset visually from the >> number, >> so it's clear what prefix it is and where the digits start. 0 as a prefix >> does not really have this property - a good reason to change; 0o and 0b both >> work. 0c may be slightly better than 0t, graphically speaking. > > 0c was rejected because in some fonts 'c' looks too much like a zero; > though it wasn't me and I don't recall every having this issue. I'm > somewhat uncomfortable with 0o because the zero in some fonts is about > the same size as a lowercase oh; but I'd be willing to support it in > the name of conventionality. Frankly, the choice of letter is a minor > issue to me that I'd gladly leave to others to discuss and decide.
My concern is that I don't want to have to write something like x = 0t755 # octal literal because then I can also write x = 493 # 0755 in octal and don't need octal literals at all. Georg _______________________________________________ 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
