Uri Guttman skribis 2005-02-22 14:41 (-0500):
> in a regex \d is a digit, so that isn't a good idea
In a rule, whitespace is a very good disambiguator.
> it would be better to require \0d.
I think nullbyte-d is rather likely to occur.
> why would we need 0d123 as a literal?
Symmetry.
0x10
0o10
0b10
0d10
Note that it isn't strictly *needed*. But if you take necessity to extremes,
0x, 0o and 0b are redundant too.
Juerd
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