[Python-3000] Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Octal

[Georg Brandl]

Thomas Wouters schrieb:
> 
> 
> On 3/15/07, *Raymond Hettinger* <python at rcn.com <mailto:python at rcn.com>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     My worry focuses on new-timers and SyntaxErrors. The worst part of
>     the new user experience is encountering a SyntaxError.
> 
> 
> Please. I already said it would be a SyntaxError *with explanation*. 
> It's pretty easy to make a syntax error that goes "Did you mean 0t6065 
> or 6065?". This would not be a syntax error handled by the parser, the 
> tokenizer really doesn't care about leading 0's and ast.c's parsenumber 
> (which would be the spot to raise it) has all the necessary information.

Until now, I skipped the octal thread. Now I read this and wondered, "what the
hell is 0t6065 supposed to mean" and only from the context I gathered that it
would be an octal literal...

Seriously, nobody, even coming from another language, will be able to look at it
and say, "yes, that's an octal literal."

Georg