On 04/03/2011 10:37 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
That said, I woudn't have a problem with 0o... being used instead (Although I'd actually prefer 0c...). But I have a hard time understanding why people are making such a big deal out of something that practically no one ever uses anyway. Consistency is nice, sure, but when it's such a trival corner-case as octal: Why even care? This isn't the color of the bikeshed, this is the *shade* of color on the underside of the trim on a window that's one foot off the ground and completely blocked by a big tree.
What I fail to see is the advantage of introducing an exception for octal. Either it is left out of the language (including stdlib, possibly having around a 3rd party hack for it), or the same pattern is used as for hex and bin. A point is stating a threshold of usefulness. Seems nearly everyone agrees octal is not worth it: then just say bye. If it kept instead because of historical reasons (what I guess is the case), then just *fix* the syntax. Introducing a feature (an exception) for a nearly useless notion is weird.
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