From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2008-09-10T22:47:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Please explain that

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Gregory Brown
<gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:

> You can represent your numbers in octal by putting a leading 0, but
> they will be accessed as decimal numbers throughout your application.

In fact the application itself has no sense of bases, applications
deal with numbers. Bases enter the game in literals, printing, etc.