"bearophile" <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote in message news:in8dfe$1e32$1...@digitalmars.com... > Walter: > >> Also, the literals 00, 01, ..., 07 will still be accepted without >> complaint. 08, >> 09, etc. will of course be errors. > > Isn't this a corner case of the general rule? (corner cases are bad). >
"(corner cases are bad)" So is stealing, but no one ever bitches if you pick up a penny off the ground. Yea, it's a corner case, but it's trivial enough not to actually matter. Guaranteed, people would bitch the other way too, so it's "dammed if we do, dammed if we don't" anyway.
