Re: [Python-3000] Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Octal

2007-03-15 Thread Mattias Engdegård
Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Seriously, nobody, even coming from another language, will be able to look at >it >and say, "yes, that's an octal literal." 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 "c

Re: [Python-3000] Octal

2007-03-14 Thread Mattias Engdegård
"Patrick Maupin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >That's a great idea all the way around. Another possible syntax would >be [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. I don't think that could mean >anything >currently. It's a terrible idea all the way around. Be reasonable: in modern code, only de