Please. No discussion of generalized radixes. Also, IMO Tim's proposal changes too much; there's nothing wrong with 0b and 0x.
On 3/15/07, Patrick Maupin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/15/07, Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2r1010 > > 4r22 > > 8r12 > > 16ra (or) 16rA > > > > Part of me would miss 0xABCD terrbly, but I like the concept. The > only real rub is the impending huge discussion about the number of > allowed radices. The max 36 radix currently supported by int() is > numerically suspiciously similar to the sum of the number of ASCII > digit characters and the number of same-case ASCII letters, so > obviously, a tempting answer to the question "How many radices should > we support?" is "All of them." > > Regards, > Pat > _______________________________________________ > 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/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
