Annoying octal notation

[MRAB]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:52:29 -0700 (PDT), James Harris
> <james.harris.1 at googlemail.com> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
> 
>> So you are saying that Smalltalk has <base in decimal>r<number> where
>> r is presumably for radix? That's maybe best of all. It preserves the
>> syntactic requirement of starting a number with a digit and seems to
>> have greatest flexibility. Not sure how good it looks but it's
>> certainly not bad.
>>
>>   0xff & 0x0e | 0b1101
>>   16rff & 16r0e | 2r1101
>>
>> Hmm. Maybe a symbol would be better than a letter.
>>
> 	Or Ada's	16#FF#, 8#377#...
> 
'#' starts a comment, so that's right out! :-)

> 	I forget if DEC/VMS FORTRAN or Xerox Sigma FORTRAN used x'FF' or
> 'FF'x, and o'377' or '377'o