To me this seems like an exception rather than a common problem. Most APIs / tools don't use octals for this type of thing. Seems unnecessary to add to the language for this one use case.
Not a Linux hater by any means, just the parseInt thing doesn't bother me for this one situation. Or am I wrong and there are other common uses for octal literals? On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Wes Garland <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll chime in with my vote - I would LOVE to be able to use octal literals > again in GPSEE for setting file permissions. > > chmod("filename", parseInt("777", 8)) > > ^^^^ just looks stupid when chmod("filename", 0777) would work just fine. > > Wes > > > > On 12 January 2012 14:11, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: > >> [Resending reply with elaboration. /be] >> >> Yes, the ability to quote the octal literal with Node's APIs came up on >> the gist, but it's not enough. >> >> Quoting is easy to forget, and making the runtime convert string >> (literal) to number is inefficient compared to having JS do it at >> compile-time, and making the runtime (even via a call to parseInt) do it >> also increases bug habitat ever so slightly. >> >> Mainly, users don't have to shun octal in non-strict mode, and they do >> not in Node code I have seen. They won't be adopting strict mode as far as >> I can tell. Banning octal is just one more reason for those who *might* >> adopt strict mode to reject it. >> >> Agree on parseInt. Old dog, hard to change (runtime-only errors are >> migration- and user-hostile). Not sure what to do there. >> >> >> /be >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/**listinfo/es-discuss<https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss> >> > > > > -- > Wesley W. Garland > Director, Product Development > PageMail, Inc. > +1 613 542 2787 x 102 > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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