I'd be in favor of that, unless someone can come up with a compelling current use-case for octal literals.
Existing code. It may use octal numbers, and it would break if they suddenly changed to decimal. Not only that - breakage would be *silent*,
i.e. the computations would just use incorrect numbers. You could make
breakage explicit, by disallowing leading zeroes in integer literals -
but still, programs would break.
As for functional use-cases: os.chmod is the typical example:
os.chmod("/tmp/bla", 0660)gives rw-rw---- access to /tmp/bla. Unix permission line up nicely with octal numbers.
Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
