Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > On 03/26/2010 06:26 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > > KennyTM~ wrote: > >> On Mar 26, 10 11:32, Walter Bright wrote: > >>> Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >>>> Supporting it means it will "silently and disastrously break code" > >>>> from anyone who tries to use a leading zero and *isn't* a C guru, > >>> > >>> You don't need to be a guru to know that. I was once a C newbie, and > >>> never had any trouble with it. > >>> > >>> It isn't just C, either, the same syntax is used in C++, Objective-C, > >>> Groovy, M4, Clojure, Go, Java, Scala, Javascript, PHP, Ruby, bash, > >>> Python (2.6 and earlier) and Perl. > >>> > >>> (It is not used in C#, Python 3.0, Fortran, or VisualBasic.) > >> > >> And removed in ECMAScript 5 (next standard of Javascript). > > > > I didn't know that. But still, it's hard to be a programmer and not use > > a language that has such literals. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum > > Andrei
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