On 4/3/11 6:24 AM, spir wrote:
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.
Right now octal constants are indeed out of the language.
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.
This is not a feature. It is effectively "bye".
Thanks,
Andrei
