Proposal: Magic Constants

[John Roth]

"Robert Kern" <kern at taliesen.caltech.edu> wrote in message
news:biihkv$9m1$1 at naig.caltech.edu...
> In article <vkpgjd74ub06ae at news.supernews.com>,
> "John Roth" <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> writes:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Another thing to think about is whether
> > this could cause problems with existing
> > code. I can't immediately think of a case
> > where a literal can be next to a character,
> > but I'm also not a real deep authority on all
> > of the oddities of Python syntax.
>
> 10L
> 0X
> 1e+10
> 10j

But these are existing literal syntax. I was thinking
more of random code where someone could currently
juxtapose a literal and an identifier, say, without an
intervening white space character.

John Roth
>
> > John Roth
>
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> Robert Kern
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