> The idea is flawed. No, really! People would start > writing integer literals as floats. And the scheme > doesn't cover floats (there is no standard way of > writing decimal places in Roman numerals AFAIK). > Rob Cliffe 3.14 == CCCXIVE-II (unscientific notation) I've always thought COBOL did a better job of EIBTI with spelled out keywords like ADD instead of + etc. This would clearly one up COBOL. (ADD ONE TO COBOL GIVING PYTHON) --- Bruce (via android) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/attachments/20101125/2f1bbe68/attachment.html>