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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Hex string literals (was Re: C23 thoughts and opinions)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 04:19:19 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 17 Jun 2024 11:42:22 +0200, David Brown wrote:

> Most situations where octal could be useful died out many decades ago -
> it is vastly more likely that "012" is intended to mean 12 than 10.  No
> serious programming language supports a leading 0 as an indication of
> octal unless they are forced to do so by backwards compatibility, and
> many that used to support them have dropped them.

For one example, Python didn’t drop octal numbers in the 2→3 transition, 
but it changed the syntax from a simple “0” prefix to having a “0o” prefix 
(analogous to “0x” for hex literals) instead.