Number literals (Was: Re: Case Range Statement ..)

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:08 PM, bearophile<bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> Nick Sabalausky:
>> why in the world is anyone defending the continued existance of "5." and ".5"?<
>
> I'm for disallowing them; 5.0 ad 0.5 are better.
> Anyone else pro/against this idea?

Totally agree.  They're cruft that just complicate lexical analysis.

> Regarding number literals, I'm also for:
> B) turning the current octal syntax into a syntax error and introducing a safer octal syntax (see Python 3);

Or just drop octal altogether.  Outside of chmod, when is there any
legitimate need for it these days?