On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 08:28, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> - floating point becomes allowed in explicit radix (and 0b,0c,0x)
How can one have floating point if "E" is a valid digit?
0x1.0e1 # 1.054931640625 or 16 ?
Has any consideration been given to using letters other than a~f in the
second position to denote a radix?
If we avoid those letters then we can write:
use radix 16;
and not have to worry about ambiguities like:
my $foo = 0c0; # 192
My suggestion would be
0x - heXadecimal
0t - decimal ("Ten") - useful if the current default radix isn't ten
0o - Octal
0q - binary (one bit is one "Question")
Though to be honest, I don't see that 0o or 0q are any shorter than 8#
and 2#.
We might also consider allowing leading-zero and leading-nonzero to have
different default radixes, such that:
use radix 10,8;
would yield the traditional behaviour.
-Martin
