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

[Guido van Rossum]

Um, I like to know who's speaking. "CM", "monpublic", "C" don't mean
much to me. Have we met? Do you have a real name? Dos anyone here know
you? (Georg perhaps?) While in general this isn't a forum where we
count votes much, *anonymous* votes really don't count for much at
all.

--Guido

On 3/16/07, CM <monpublic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oops, posted from the wrong email address (sorry Georg):
>
> To switch this into a positive idea from a negative one, I am
>
> -1 on using 't'
> -.5 on having octal literals at all, since int('0755',8) does the job nicely
> when needed
> +1 on 'o' if we must have them in the language, since the first letter of
> the radix name is easier to grok than an obscure third letter that doesn't
> even have the pronunciation excuse that 'x' carries in English.
>
> - C

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