22-08-2009 o 21:04:17 Derek Martin <c...@pizzashack.org> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:03:35AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
These human programmers, whether newbies or long-experienced, also deal with decimal numbers every day, many of which are presented as a sequence of digits with leading zeros — and we continue to think of them as decimal numbers regardless. Having the language syntax opposed to that is
...consistent with virtually every other popular programming language.
Probably not every other... Anyway -- being (as it was said) inconsistent with every-day-convention -- it'd be also inconsistent with *Python* conventions, i.e.: 0x <- hex prefix 0b <- bin prefix Cheers, *j -- Jan Kaliszewski (zuo) <z...@chopin.edu.pl> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
