Re: Numeric Literals (Summary)

On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 07:14  AM, Graham Barr wrote:
> Are we not just getting too carried away with all this base
> of literals.
>
> I also think -documentation is the wrong place to discuss this.

Yep.  I'll try and come up with a summary today or tomorrow that marks 
all the *known* behaviors, and marks all the unknown behaviors or 
proposed additions.  If we want any of the proposed additions, we'll 
have to ask for judgments on them.

Gimme till tomorrow to summarize the radix/literal stuff so we can 
regroup and ask questions.

In the meantime, we're still trying to figure out the best way(s) to 
specify "this number should always be printed in hex format" or "when 
converting from a string, always treat the string as being in octal 
format".  (formatted in/out from strings).  Several proposals, but I 
think we could use a bit more discussion on what people want...

MikeL