On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 10:35 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Also, the C in octal is the last letter of the first syllable. I stand by my choice. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
