Numeric literals in other than base 10 - was Annoying octal notation

[garabik-news-2005-05 at kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk]

In comp.lang.python James Harris <james.harris.1 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 22 Aug, 10:27, David <71da... at libero.it> wrote:

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>>
>> What about 2_1011, 8_7621, 16_c26h or 2;1011, 8;7621, 16;c26h ?
> 
> They look good - which is important. The trouble (for me) is that I
> want the notation for a new programming language and already use these
> characters. I have underscore as an optional separator for groups of
> digits - 123000 and 123_000 mean the same.

Why not just use the space? 123 000 looks better than 123_000, and 
is not syntactically ambiguous (at least in python). And as it
already works for string literals, it could be applied to numbers, too…

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