"James Harris" <james.harri...@googlemail.com> wrote in message news:bc3607b3-7fdd-43fd-8ede-66ac3f597...@32g2000yqj.googlegroups.com... On 22 Aug, 10:27, David <71da...@libero.it> wrote:
>They look good - which is important. The trouble (for me) is that I >want the notation for a new programming language and already use these >characters. I have underscore as an optional separator for groups of >digits - 123000 and 123_000 mean the same. The semicolon terminates a >statement. Based on your second idea, though, maybe a colon could be >used instead as in XPL uses "(2)1011" for base 4, "(3)03212" for octal, "(4)0741" for base 16. PL/I uses 8FXN for numeric hex and X suffix for a hex character constant. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
