John Machin wrote: > I regard continued usage of octal as a pox and a pestilence.
Quite agree. I was disappointed that it ever made it into Python. Octal's only use is: a) umasks b) confusing the hell out of normal non-programmers for whom a leading zero is in no way magic (a) does not outweigh (b). In Mythical Future Python I would like to be able to use any base in integer literals, which would be better. Example random syntax: flags= 2x00011010101001 umask= 8x664 answer= 10x42 addr= 16x0E800004 # 16x == 0x gunk= 36x8H6Z9A0X But either way, I want rid of 0->octal. > Is it not regretted? Maybe the problem just doesn't occur to people who have used C too long. OT: Also, if Google doesn't stop lstrip()ing my posts I may have to get a proper news feed. What use is that on a Python newsgroup? Grr. -- Andrew Clover mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.doxdesk.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
