"KennyTM~" <kenn...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:he8a02$1jt...@digitalmars.com... > On Nov 21, 09 15:40, Yigal Chripun wrote: >> >> in the short term I wouldn't mind if they would be typed as: >> 0baseEightXXX or what ever as long as the current syntax is removed. >> >> in the long term, I'd like to see a more general syntax that allows to >> write numbers in any base. >> something like: >> [base]n[number] - e.g. 16nA0FF, 2n0101, 18nGH129, etc. >> also define syntax to write a list of digits: >> 1024n[1005, 452, 645, 16nFFF] // each digit can also be defined in >> arbitrary base >> > > What's the point of using bases other than 2, 8, 10, 16, 36 and 64?
Numeric processing, maybe?