Is the world coming to an end?

[Russel Winder]

On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 18:20 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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.

The problem is not that it is a poor solution in isolation, it is the
conflict between 0b... and 0x.. versus octal!...  Why is octal being
discriminated against compared to binary and hexadecimal?

-- 
Russel.
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