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From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
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On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 23:27, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> The main objection raised was potential confusion between 1 and l, and 0 and
> O in numeric literals.

I know but this the pros beat the cons as indicated in the discussion in
the AC. (And anyway a good editor should make the differences clear. My
mailer's editor does. What is the job of the editor, you know...)

> My personal feeling is that it isn't worth the effort (and there is
> certainly non-zero effort required).

I would suppose that the device in place for base 16 could be very
easily extended to 36. When I write these things I draw on ASCII where
all letters are in order.