2006/1/31, Bengt Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In that case, could I also make a pitch for the letter c which would similarly > follow a radix (in decimal) but would introduce the rest of the number as > a radix-complement signed number, e.g., -2, 16cfe, 8c76, 2c110, 10c98 would > all have the same value, and the sign-digit could be arbitrarily repeated to > the left without changing the value, e.g., -2, 16cfffe, 8c776, 2c1110, > 10c99998 > would all have the same value. Likewise the positive values, where the > "sign-digit" > would be 0 instead of radix-1 (in the particular digit set for the radix). > E.g., > 2, 16c02, 16c0002, 8c02, 8c0002, 2c010, 2c0010, 10c02, 10c00002, etc. Of > course > you can put a unary minus in front of any of those, so -16f7 == 1609, and > -2c0110 == -6 == 2c1010 etc.
This is getting too complicated. I dont' want to read code and pause myself 5 minutes while doing math to understand a number. I think that the whole point of modifying something is to simplify it. I'm +0 on removing 0-leading literals. But only if we create "d", "h" and "o" suffixes to represent decimal, hex and octal literals (2.35d, 3Fh, 660o). And +0 on keeping the "0x" preffix for hexa (c'mon, it seems so natural....). Regards, . Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
