Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 03/26/2010 06:26 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
KennyTM~ wrote:
On Mar 26, 10 11:32, Walter Bright wrote:
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Supporting it means it will "silently and disastrously break code"
from anyone who tries to use a leading zero and *isn't* a C guru,
You don't need to be a guru to know that. I was once a C newbie, and
never had any trouble with it.
It isn't just C, either, the same syntax is used in C++, Objective-C,
Groovy, M4, Clojure, Go, Java, Scala, Javascript, PHP, Ruby, bash,
Python (2.6 and earlier) and Perl.
(It is not used in C#, Python 3.0, Fortran, or VisualBasic.)
And removed in ECMAScript 5 (next standard of Javascript).
I didn't know that. But still, it's hard to be a programmer and not use
a language that has such literals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
I was responding to Nick's argument:
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Supporting it means it will "silently and disastrously break code" from anyone
who tries to use a leading zero and *isn't* a C guru, and very few people these
days are (I used C for years without being aware of that octal syntax - it's
only by dumb luck I didn't try to use a leading zero).
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where the statement of very few people being exposed to such literals is the
issue. I should have left in the fuller quote.
