Third Draft: Pep for Deprecating Builtins

Boris Borcic borcis at geneva-link.ch
Mon Apr 29 16:54:03 EDT 2002


James J. Besemer wrote:
> 
> > >From the comments, I've learned:
> >
> > 5.  oct() is another candidate based on the rarity of usage
> 
> Candidate perhaps but some people still like Octal.

Octal has some virtues, e.g. 365 == 0555 making it easy
to remember the number of days in a usual (non-leap) year :)

365 == 0555 == 012**2 + 013**2 + 014**2 == 015**2 + 016**2 -ly yours,

Boris Borcic
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