In article <6031ba08-08c8-416b-91db-ce8ff57ae...@w6g2000yqw.googlegroups.com>, James Harris <james.harri...@googlemail.com> wrote: <SNIP> > >So you are saying that Smalltalk has <base in decimal>r<number> where >r is presumably for radix? That's maybe best of all. It preserves the >syntactic requirement of starting a number with a digit and seems to >have greatest flexibility. Not sure how good it looks but it's >certainly not bad. > > 0xff & 0x0e | 0b1101 > 16rff & 16r0e | 2r1101 > >Hmm. Maybe a symbol would be better than a letter.
Like 0#ff 16#ff ? That is ALGOL68. It is incredible how many of it has become vindicated over time. (Yes, nineteen hundred sixty eight was the year that language was conceived.) > >James Groetjes Albert -- -- Albert van der Horst, UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS Economic growth -- being exponential -- ultimately falters. alb...@spe&ar&c.xs4all.nl &=n http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
