Is the world coming to an end?

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 03.04.2011 22:47, schrieb 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.
> 

Hm yes, you're right. I think I was having a knot in my brain from octal!0777 ;)