Is the world coming to an end?

[Dan Olson]

Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> writes:

> I can see that the syntax octal!677 can be a bit off-putting at first,
> simply because it is not what we're used to. But give it a chance.

Thought I'd test drive octal!.  I'm still on v2.051 though.

writefln("%o", octal!777);    -> 777
writefln("%o", octal!0777);   -> 511 (0ops)

Maybe in a new version the second line will generate a error for the
leading zero on the second line?

-- 
Dan