On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 12:19 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Thu, 10 May 2018 23:23:33 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: > >> On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 9:21 PM, Steven D'Aprano >> <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >>> On Thu, 10 May 2018 11:03:54 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote about proposed >>> prefixes for octal: >>> >>>> Personally I would have preferred the "t". >>> >>> "t" for octal, hey? >>> >>> That would be annoying if we ever get trinary literals. >>> >>> n for binary >>> t for octal >>> i for trinary >>> or should that be r for ternary? >>> o for duodecimal >> >> I prefer it because it's the first letter of a syllable and it's not >> "o", not because it's the third letter of the word. > > You should have said. Since you quoted the PEP, I inferred you were > agreeing with the PEP's suggestion: > > even to use a "t" for "ocTal" and an "n" for "biNary" to > go along with the "x" for "heXadecimal". > > Note the "go along with". The X of hexadecimal, and the N of binary, are > the *last* letter of a syllable, not the first, so I didn't think that > "first letter of a syllable" was the rule you were applying. If it were, > you would have picked "C" for oc-tal, not t.
The X of hexadecimal is pronounced as the consonant cluster /ks/. The k sound ends the first syllable, and the s sound begins the second syllable. So the X is both, really. The N of binary is the first letter of the second syllable, unless the Australian pronunciation is radically different from the American. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
