More octal questions

[Stewart Gordon]

On 15/02/2012 16:41, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
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> They're not left over at all, and they have nothing to do with octal.
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They are something to do with octal: because in D an integer literal beginning with 0 is 
defined to be octal, the compiler must interpret them as such if it is going to accept 
them at all.

Of course, under current D2 without -d, the compiler rejects zero-led integer literals 
greater than 07.  But it's because of this octal legacy that it accepts up to 07 but not 
08, 09 or 010.

Still, what's the long-term plan?  To remove octal literals completely, and allow decimal 
literals to have leading 0s?  Or to continue to allow just up to 07 until the end of time?

Stewart.