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

[Georg Brandl]

Greg Ewing schrieb:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> I'm
>> somewhat uncomfortable with 0o because the zero in some fonts is about
>> the same size as a lowercase oh;
> 
> You already have to be careful what font you use for
> programming with, so I don't think that's a serious
> problem.

I agree.

> More serious is that if we want to be consistent with
> 0x and allow upper case, we get 0O, which looks quite
> confusing in just about any font.

Hm, I don't think there are too many people who write 0XABC today.
As discussed earlier, you lose the "short" x.

Georg