We are still supporting LegacyOctalIntegerLiteral in sloppy mode and we cannot change that. The web depends on it.
LegacyOctalIntegerLiteral is pretty common in Node.js for file attributes for example. Once people transition to use 0o777 instead we can revisit LegacyOctalIntegerLiteral but generally these things are really hard to remove. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:19 AM, John Mellor <[email protected]> wrote: > Do we have any use counters for this? I've never seen anyone deliberately > using octal. > > On 2 October 2014 12:24, Mathias Bynens <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:10 PM, John Mellor <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Will V8 simultaneously drop support for the legacy 0377 syntax for octal >> > numbers? Or does this mean both will be supported? >> >> The octal literal syntax is part of Annex B, which browsers are >> required to implement for Web compatibility. >> > > -- erik -- -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
