Don wrote:
Make a leading 0 illegal,
I'm not sure what benefit that accomplishes.
and either: (1) change the octal syntax into 0c77733,or(better) (2) provide an octal conversion function in the standard library.Because of CTFE, so we can actually do (2) very nicely. I don't see any need for it to be a language feature when a library can do a better job.
