On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 09:54, Luke Palmer wrote: > I've always wanted to meet The Devil. :)
You're welcome :-) > Honestly, I can't tell by looking at that what those are supposed to > mean. And I'm not putting any numbers that ugly into my Perl soup. > Perl 6 is trying to I<decrease> obfuscation. I was afraid of that. :-( Although, I remember when I first moved from Assembler to C; back then "0x" seemed pretty weird and ungainly. > My opinion: don't allow floating point arbitrary radix. It's uncommon > enough that it could be done with a module. It would be trivial with > a grammar munge. Hmmm... let's try this with some examples; choose some other punctuation marks if you don't like '#' for exponent. Which is quicker to understand out of: (a) 0b1000000000000000000 (b) 2#1#14 (c) 2#1#1110 (d) 1<<14 I'm guessing most people would choose (d) followed by (c) or (b). However (d) doesn't generalize to other bases; powers of 2 are almost OK: (f) 0x5000000 (g) 16#5000000 (h) 16#5#6 (i) 5<<24 but others are just plain messy: (j) 3#2000000000 (k) 3#2#9 (l) 2*3**9 -Martin
