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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: Hex string literals (was Re: C23 thoughts and opinions)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 17:21:00 +0200
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On 18/06/2024 15:56, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:
>> On 2024-06-17, bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>>> AFAIK nobody uses octal anymore.
>>
>> Unix shell and C programmers fairly often use octal unintentionally,
> 
> Perhaps you do.   Don't speak for others, please.
> 

Others do it too.  Perhaps not "fairly often", but it certainly happens.