PEP239 (Rational Numbers) Reference Implementation and new issues

[Jeff Epler]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 06:34:27AM +0000, Alex Martelli wrote:
> No, it wouldn't hurt much (though I'd spell it with a lowercase r -- I 
> think that would make it more readable).  A trailing d could specify
> decimal, a trailing L (normally uppercase for legibility) long -- the
> latter should be extended to literals such as:
>         1e7L
> meaning the same as 10000000L


Would '1.1e7L' also be a long literal under this suggestion?

you could always pollute your namespace with variables of the form 'e%d'
and type '1L*e7' ...

and then there's ways
    setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_GB") # surprise the americans
    parse_long("ten billion")

Jeff