On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:08 PM, bearophile<bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote: > Nick Sabalausky: >> why in the world is anyone defending the continued existance of "5." and >> ".5"?< > > I'm for disallowing them; 5.0 ad 0.5 are better. > Anyone else pro/against this idea?
Totally agree. They're cruft that just complicate lexical analysis. > Regarding number literals, I'm also for: > B) turning the current octal syntax into a syntax error and introducing a > safer octal syntax (see Python 3); Or just drop octal altogether. Outside of chmod, when is there any legitimate need for it these days?
