Re: Perl6 Operator List, TAKE 4

[Dan Sugalski]

At 4:44 PM -0500 10/28/02, Mark J. Reed wrote:

On 2002-10-28 at 16:39:10, brian wheeler wrote:

 [The below is actually from Larry, not Michael]
 > explicit radix specifications for integers:
 >      0123            - decimal
 >    2:0110            - binary     [also b:0110?]
 >    8:123             - octal      [also o:123?]
 >    16:123            - hex        [also h:123?]
 >    256:192.168.1.0   - base 256
 >    (...etc...)

The post that started this thread was a complaint about
leading 0 meaning octal - which is counterintuitive to everyone the
first time they come across it in C or Perl or Java or wherever.

That's not entirely true. Granted the set of the people for whom a leading 0 instinctively means octal is not that big (and getting smaller due to retirement and death from old age :) but it was meaningful at one time.
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Dan

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