Christopher Wright wrote:
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Octal literals aren't necessary with hex literals, but they might be
convenient. However, making them variable width seems like it opens up
the possibility for obscure bugs. I would not recommend that anyone use
octal literals, and I don't think they're an advantage to the language.
Even if they were, their current representation is not.
Can we just remove this?
One octal literal is very commonly used: \0.
At least save this one. Just don't go allowing things like "\012" to
mean ['\0', '1', '2'].
Stewart.
