Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Jeff Shannon wrote:
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.
Right, which was my original point -- it was only in the context of Python 3.0 / 3K, when backwards compatibility is *already* being deliberately discarded, that getting rid of octal constants would be worth considering.
(I had specified *current* use-case to specifically indicate "other than backwards-compatibility and historical reasons" -- I know those are overriding until Py3K, but if the whole point of Py3K is to ditch all the "features" that exist only for backwards-compatibility and historical reasons, then...)
Jeff Shannon
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