[wtetzner]

Why not use 0x,0b, and 0o for hex, binary, and octal literals? I never liked the fact that a number starting with 0 was treated as octal.

[steinuil]

OCaml does just that; it might have been the first language to have 0b and 0o prefixes for binary and octal literals.

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/the-origin-of-the-0b-01-notation...