Re: Literals, take 2

[email protected] (Dave Storrs) Thu, 14 Nov 2002 00:24:50 -0800
Newsgroups perl.perl6.documentation
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On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:33:09PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> : 	1_2_3_4______5___6   (absurd, but doable)
> 
> Nope, _ is allowed only between digits (counting a-f as digits in hex).
> 
> Larry

Does this mean that you can't use _ in numbers if the radix is higher than 16?  (For example, in base 20, the letters A-J should be considered to be digits...can you put underscores between them?)

Also, on this subject...what happens if I want to use "letter notation" in a base higher than 36? 

--Dks