[Guido van Rossum] > FWIW, I consider `...` a historic wart and a failed experiment (even > though I use it frequently myself). Hey, hey! Glad to hear you do not like it so much yourself :-). I keep saying to people around me that `print' and backquotes are merely debugging devices, that we should not really keep in production code. Nobody speaks about `input()', of course. :-) > I grew up around a CDC mainframe that dumped in octal.) Hi there! I could probably debug an octal dump even today, the CPU codes are rather easy to remember :-). Many members of the PDP series were also favouring octal. Isn't the Cray which was using a mix of hexadecimal and octal in dumps (or do I mix it with something else)? But this is history. I would prefer decimal everywhere nowadays. Too bad that Unicode pushed so strongly on hexadecimal, this is a bit anachronical. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
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