Leadings zeroes signal the use of base 8. Have a look at this “base 10” calculator.
https://play.golang.org/p/L0whPekuvG There was debate about this in early Go days. It is consistent with historical usage (C, and earlier, in Donald Knuth’s Art of Computer Programming.) Good summary at Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octal#In_computers) and in this 2009 Go decision (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/151). From: <golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Val <delepl...@gmail.com> Date: Friday, August 19, 2016 at 9:40 PM To: golang-nuts <golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> Cc: <rthornton...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [go-nuts] Unary + Hello Ian Leading zeroes do affect the value : https://play.golang.org/p/h0iE_8_yYK I personally regard this as a gotcha, and this feeling gets stronger when an experienced gopher overlooks it. I put an entry in my go-traps list. Cheers Val On Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 2:55:44 AM UTC+2, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: The same is true of leading zeroes, which also do not affect the value of the expression. Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
