Walter Bright wrote:
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
(I used C for years without being aware of that octal syntax - it's
only by dumb luck I didn't try to use a leading zero).
It is on the 3rd page of chapter 2 in K&R (and chapter 2 is the first
chapter of the specification).
A mitigating factor is who uses leading 0's for integer literals?
Another is if you started using leading 0's, very quickly you'd try
using the digits 8 or 9, and would get an error.
I don't think you'd get very far using leading 0's without discovering
the issue.
I've done it with powers of 10:
001,
010,
100
and then wondered why my code was wrong. It's the only time in my life
I've ever used an octal literal.
