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On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 16:02, Bo Lindbergh <blgl@stacken.kth.se> wrote:
> {
> print 0xabcdef; # this outputs "11259375"
> print 0xABCDEF; # so does this
> print 0XABCDEF; # but this is a syntax error
> }
>
> Is there some kind of thought behind only allowing lowercase x
> in a hexadecimal literal?
Oh look, a case where Perl actually is more pedantic than Python, Ruby and C.
No idea why it isn't allowed. Probably because nobody complained so
far and offered up a patch.
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