Hello Walter,
BCS wrote:
I don't see where the "gotcha" is. It's not trivial, but it's
specifiable, and the code implementing it is there and is correct.
well for one thing the spec is wrong:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1466
That issue has nothing to do with octal literals, and removing them
will have no affect on it.
I think this strand of the thread (and what I was talking about) was not
about octal but about complexity in the lexical design. That bugzilla issue
was brought up as an issue and IS the first point that comes to my mind in
that direction. disallowing leading or trailing decimal points would fix
that issue and I for one would approve of it on that grounds as well as the
the other advantages (it's harder to read wrong for one thing).
