Number literals (Was: Re: Case Range Statement ..)

[Walter Bright]

Don wrote:
> Make a leading 0 illegal,

I'm not sure what benefit that accomplishes.

> and either:
> (1) change the octal syntax into 0c77733,
> or(better) (2) provide an octal conversion function in the standard 
> library.
> 
> Because of CTFE, so we can actually do (2) very nicely. I don't see any 
> need for it to be a language feature when a library can do a better job.