On 2/1/06, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 17:17 -0500, Andrew Koenig wrote: > > I am personally partial to allowing an optional radix (in decimal) followed > > by the letter r at the beginning of a literal, so 19, 8r23, and 16r13 would > > all represent the same value. > > For me, adding the radix to the right instead of left looks nicer: > 23r8, 13r16, etc., since a radix is almost like a unit, and units are > always to the right. Plus, we already use suffix characters to the > right, like 10L. And I seem to recall an old assembler (a z80 > assembler, IIRC :P) that used a syntax like 10h and 11b for hex an bin > radix.
ffr16 #16rff or 255 Iamadeadparrotr36 # 36rIamadeadparrot or 3120788520272999375597 Suffix syntax for bases higher than 10 is ambiguous with variable names. Prefix syntax is not. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
