On 3/15/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm neutral about the choice between 0o, 0c or 0t.
Interested Lurker Opinion: Can it be a "small" character? 0x1 leaps out for me because of the fact that numbers are all "tall" and the x is short-- so having that difference in height makes it very clear this is not a normal base 10 number when I'm scanning text. 0o755 does the same, as does 0c755. Heck, even 0b10100 looks fine even though the 'b' has a stalk, since its bottom-heavy with the stalk off to the side. However, a 't' is a tall and relatively streamlined character... 0t755 looks all jumbled together and doesn't provide as clear a visual indicator that something abnormal is going on here. I periodically have to use octal numbers, and so far am only using them with the int() function because I don't find 0755 as readily expressive of "Hi! I'm Octal!" as I'd like. 0t755 wouldn't be much of an improvement; but anything else short would be, from 0o755 to 0c755 to ... 0a755 .. or whatever. :) --Stephen, who goes back to lurking interestedly. :)
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