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

[Guido van Rossum]

On 3/15/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> My main interest is that we should move away from just leading zero as
> octal, disallow leading zero altogether because of the confusion it
> would cause for folks coming from other neutral about the choice
> between 0o, 0c or 0t.

Something got lost there in a last-minute edit. I meant to say:

My main interest is that we should move away from just leading zero as
octal; that we should disallow leading zero altogether because of the
confusion it would cause for folks coming from other languagesl and
that we should avoid the swamp that is generalized numeric bases. I'm
neutral about the choice between 0o, 0c or 0t.

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)