[Python-3000] Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Octal (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Mar 15 21:50:35 CET 2007

"Stephen Hansen" <apt.shansen at gmail.com> wrote in message news:7a9c25c20703151248w56c5b297w12477d7290410803 at mail.gmail.com... | On 3/15/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: | > | > I'm neutral about the choice between 0o, 0c or 0t. ||| Interested Lurker Opinion: Can it be a "small" character? 0x1 leaps out for | me because of the fact that numbers are all "tall" and the x is short-- so | having that difference in height makes it very clear this is not a normal | base 10 number when I'm scanning text. 0o755 does the same, as does 0c755. | Heck, even 0b10100 looks fine even though the 'b' has a stalk, since its | bottom-heavy with the stalk off to the side. || However, a 't' is a tall and relatively streamlined character... 0t755 looks | all jumbled together and doesn't provide as clear a visual indicator that | something abnormal is going on here. I periodically have to use octal | numbers, and so far am only using them with the int() function because I | don't find 0755 as readily expressive of "Hi! I'm Octal!" as I'd like. 0t755 | wouldn't be much of an improvement; but anything else short would be, from | 0o755 to 0c755 to ... 0a755 .. or whatever. :)

I agree. 0t = base two?, three?, ten?, thirteen?, twenty? ;-)

tjr

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