> I think Beni has a very nice idea here, especially for people who can't > visualize 2's-complement (not mentioning Guido by name <wink>). In fact it's so subtle that I didn't notice what he proposed. I though it had to do with the uppercase of 1xABCD. Maybe that's too subtle? Do we really need this? > > I just got another idea: use 0x1234 for 0-filled numbers and 1xABCD for > > 1-filled ones. That way you impose no restrictions on what follows the > > prefix and keep backward compatibility. 0xFFFFFFFF stays a 2^n-1 > > _positive_ number, as it should be. The look of 1x is weird at first but > > it is very logical... > > > > Beni Cherniavsky <cben@tx.technion.ac.il> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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