[Issue 1865] New: Escape sequences are flawed.

Janice Caron caron800 at googlemail.com
Sun Feb 24 14:18:53 PST 2008


On 24/02/2008, d-bugmail at puremagic.com <d-bugmail at puremagic.com> wrote:
>  The highest possible octal value is 0777 which equals 0x1FF in hex. It seems
>  like dmd doesn't know this.

Wait, wait, wait. Shouldn't the highest possible octal value be 0377?

That is, shouldn't we just /disallow/ 0400 to 0777 inclusive?

The whole point is to define a BYTE, after all.


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