Is the world coming to an end?

[Walter Bright]

On 4/3/2011 1:42 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
> Am 03.04.2011 22:38, schrieb Walter Bright:
>> On 4/3/2011 1:23 PM, Dan Olson wrote:
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, it will.
>
> What about octal!"0777"?

No.

> I'm not even sure what it should do (ignore 0?
> complain? behave like the old 0777?)

It's seems clear to me. octal!"0777" should generate 777 octal.