Python Gotcha with Octal Numbers

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Wed Feb 13 12:03:02 EST 2002


Paul Hughett <hughett at mercur.uphs.upenn.edu> writes:

> It could be worse.  In one language I worked in, "10" was an octal
> integer, "10." was a decimal integer, and "10.0" was floating point.
> Nice language otherwise, though.

Maclisp?

Cheers,
M.

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