"Hendrik van Rooyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"Paul Hankin" <p...l.com>wrote: > >> Even clearer is not to allow octal literals :) Is there *any* use for >> them? > >I tend to agree with this point of view - but I fear it will set up a howl >of protest amongst the Brits who cut their teeth on 24 bit ICT/ICL >equipment...
As a long-time Control Data employee, I know that 60-bit words and 18-bit addresses meant that I could do octal arithmetic nearly as fast as decimal. On the other hand, Python doesn't run on the 6000s... -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
