On 4/3/2011 12:00 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
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.
The 0x notation is heavily used, and so justifies a custom syntax for it. Octal
is pretty much never used outside of setting file permission masks.
Much as I like PDP-10's and PDP-11's, they are dead and gone. <sob>
