Re: Numeric Literals (Summary 4)

[Michael Lazzaro]

On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 03:31  AM, Anton Berezin wrote:

This:

- radix > 36, only colon form is allowed, not alpha digits

implies that this:

  256#0_253_254_255   # base 256, NOT identical!

is actually not allowed, no?

Correct. It's an error, because radix > 36 mandates coloned form, and the colon-form digit 253254255 cannot exist in base 256. AND since underscores can only separate digits, underscores are not allowed at all in coloned form, no matter what the base.

(Umm... what's a better name than "coloned form"? That term sounds really... um... bad.)

MikeL