[Python-ideas] Python Numbers as Human Concept Decimal System

[Greg Ewing]

Oscar Benjamin wrote:
> In C and some other languages the f suffix indicates a numeric literal
> that has type "float" e.g. "6.0f". You can use upper case there as
> well but the convention is lower case and to include the .0 when it's
> an integer. I just though that 3F looks sufficiently distinct from the
> way it's typically done in C.

I'm not sure it's different enough; I've been looking at
Java code recently that uses uppercase F.

An alternative would be to use 'r' or 'R' for 'rational',
which would eliminate any chance of confusion.

-- 
Greg