Octal notation: severe deprecation

[phil_nospam_schmidt at yahoo.com]

Peter Hansen wrote:
> and-google at doxdesk.com wrote:
> > In Mythical Future Python I would like to be able to use any base
in
> > integer literals, which would be better. Example random syntax:
> >
> > flags= 2x00011010101001
> > umask= 8x664
> > answer= 10x42
> > addr= 16x0E800004  # 16x == 0x
> > gunk= 36x8H6Z9A0X
>
> I think I kinda like this idea.  Allowing arbitrary values,
> however, would probably be pointless, as there are very
> few bases in common enough use that a language should make
> it easy to write literals in any of them.  So I think "36x"
> is silly, and would suggest limiting this to 2, 8, 10, and
> 16.  At the very least, a range of 2-16 should be used.
> (It would be cute but pointless to allow 1x000000000. :-)
>
> -Peter
>
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How about base 24 and 60, for hours and minutes/seconds?