Is the world coming to an end?

[Russel Winder]

On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 08:50 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
[ . . . ]
> I agree with everyone who says octal!x is good enough -- nobody uses octal  
> except for unix permissions, so anyone who's arguing against the syntax is  
> doing it from a theoretical position, since it probably doesn't affect  
> them.

Not entirely true, but views have been aired, decisions ratified, so it
is time to move on with the status quo -- probably "Whatever You Want",
but maybe "What You're Proposing" -- mostly thought this is now a
non-issue, is there anything else to be said?

-- 
Russel.
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