Is the world coming to an end?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message 
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> Walter:
>
>> Also, the literals 00, 01, ..., 07 will still be accepted without 
>> complaint. 08,
>> 09, etc. will of course be errors.
>
> Isn't this a corner case of the general rule? (corner cases are bad).
>

"(corner cases are bad)"

So is stealing, but no one ever bitches if you pick up a penny off the 
ground. Yea, it's a corner case, but it's trivial enough not to actually 
matter. Guaranteed, people would bitch the other way too, so it's "dammed if 
we do, dammed if we don't" anyway.