On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 16:47 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:

> The point is that "octal!" is not a syntax. It's completely a library 
> construction.

So remove 0b... and 0x... as well such that the compiler only knows
about decimal.  The point here is not the removal of the C-style octal
notation, everyone agrees that it was and remains a bad idea, the
problem is the inconsistency of treatment of binary and hexadecimal
compared to octal.

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