On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 06:52:09PM +0100, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: [...] > The goal here is to make sure things either do what they > look like, or don't compile. > > 010 doesn't do what it looks like to a person used to > decimal; it is a C octal literal for decimal 8. > > So it is deprecated. > > But, making it mean decimal 10 is also a no go, because > if you're used to C syntax, it won't do what you expect. > > That's why it is an error. It is sure to confuse *somebody*.
True. Especially if a C coder tries calling chmod() with 0644 and it silently gets interpreted as decimal. > 01, 02, 03, ... 07 though work in both cases, so they > might still be allowed. (I'm not sure if they are or not). [...] Currently the compiler accepts them (even without -deprecated). Otherwise std.datetime wouldn't compile. :) T -- Bomb technician: If I'm running, try to keep up.
