"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:hogqkn$um...@digitalmars.com... > bearophile wrote: >> Nope, here I have suggested to turn leading zeros in syntax errors: >> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3837 > > Right, but that doesn't help those who wish to use leading 0s.
I don't think anyone cares about being able to use leading zeros for a decimal literal. The primary complaint is that if a leading zero does get used (either by accident, or by someone who doesn't know that D breaks basic grade-school number convention), it results in a silent bug.
