Mattias Gaertner wrote:
constructor TFileStream.Create(const AFileName: string; Mode: Word);
begin
Create(AFileName,Mode,438);
end;
The octal value of 438 is &666, which is read/write
permissions for other/group/owner.
Why not write &666? Maybe some religious reasons? ;)
Default radix for debugger variable display? Non-unix programmer not
appreciating the "natural" way that the bits group?
/Anything's/ better than starting an argument over mysticism and
gullibility exhibited by certain communities.
I find that Burroughs was using Octal in about 1960, which predates its
popularisation by DEC etc. by some years.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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