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by wtetzner 2575 days ago
Yeah, it never made sense to me not to include those, given how simple it is.
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The typical octal literal syntax I've seen uses a 0 prefix. This gives rise to quite a few gotchas, as most people think of leading 0's as being non-value-changing. Maybe 0o12345670?
Yeah, I agree that it's not a good syntax. I do think 0o is a good prefix though.