Re: Implicit enum conversions are a stupid PITA

[Walter Bright]

Don wrote:
I've done it with powers of 10:
001,
010,
100
and then wondered why my code was wrong. It's the only time in my life 
I've ever used an octal literal.

I see that and it screams BINARY to me, not decimal!

I guess I'm not sure why it never was a problem for me. It's just "oh, that's 
octal, ok" and went on to more interesting things.