Derek Martin <c...@pizzashack.org> writes: > Sure, but that won't stop people who've been writing code for 20 years > from continuing to type octal that way... Humans can learn fairly > easily, but UN-learning is often much harder, especially when the > behavior to be unlearned is still very commonly in use.
This is exactly the argument for removing ‘012’ octal notation: humans (and programmers who have far less need for octal numbers than for decimal numbers) are *already* trained, and reinforced many times daily, to think of that notation as a decimal number. They should not need to un-learn that association in order to understand octal literals in code. > Anyway, whatever. This change (along with a few of the other seemingly > arbitrary changes in 3.x) is annoying, but Python is still one of the > best languages to code in for any multitude of problems. Hear hear. -- \ “I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it | `\ is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I | _o__) say, ‘I think I might have written that.’” —Steven Wright | Ben Finney
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