\ OctalDigit etc.

[Sean Kelly]

== Quote from Walter Bright (newshound1 at digitalmars.com)'s article
> The way the octal escape sequences work is pretty standard practice. To
> change it would be to confuse the other half of people who use it :-(

The format of octal literals is one of the more harebrained ideas we've inherited from C.  I'd love to require
an "0o" prefix or something of the sort, but it would cause unnecessary trouble for ported C code.  Ah well.


Sean