Is the world coming to an end?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/2/11 6:36 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
> Am 03.04.2011 01:20, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
>> On 4/2/11 5:27 PM, ulrik.mikaelsson at gmail.com wrote:
>>> A D-newbie would probably be able to guess 0o for octal, but hardly
>>> octal!. octal! breaks the rule of least surprise.
>>
>> I fail to infer how using the word "octal" for an octal literal is surprising at
>> all.
>>
>> This thread is a good example that it's impossible to please everyone. Although
>> past discussions made it clear that most everyone found leading 0 a poor
>> convention for octal numbers, now not only the consensus is weaker, but some
>> actually claim a different solution is superior. If that were chosen, then all
>> of a sudden octal!777 would have become suddenly sexy and so on.
>>
>> The grass is always greener on the other side...
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> I don't think the consensus that a leading 0 is a poor convention for octal
> numbers is weaker now - so far nobody wants the old syntax back :)

Some discussions on IRC suggest otherwise.

Andrei