Luke Palmer skribis 2005-02-22 11:40 (-0700): > Some time ago on perl6-documentation (when it existed) we decided that > octals would now be represented as 0o777 and, in strings, \o777. Should > 0777 and, in particular, \777 come with warnings? What, exactly, does > \777 mean in a string?
And for symmetry, can we get 0d and \d for decimal, for those cases where you want to be explicit? I think \777 should be chr(777). As should \0d777, should you want to document that it's really not octal. (Important mostly the first year after the first release.) Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.html