On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Mark J. Reed wrote: : On 2002-10-26 at 18:10:39, Michael Lazzaro wrote: : > > Larry wrote: : > > > If one were going to generalize that, one would be tempted to go the Ada : > > > route of specifying the radix explicitly: : Ada and others . . . ksh uses the # for this (in place of your colon below), : and I seem to recall that syntax being borrowed from an older language, but : I don't recall which one.
Well, that's Ada, actually. I substituted the colon because I didn't want to overload our comment character. Though numbers could do that, just as m## already does. I presume that m## is one of those things you avoid in IDEs though. Something to be said for disallowing m## while we're disallowing m:: and m(). Something to be said against it too... Larry
