Re: [RFC] Add support for explicit octal notation for integer literals
| From: | Sara Golemon | Date: | Wed, 21 Oct 2020 19:47:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Add support for explicit octal notation for integer literals | ||
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On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 9:59 AM G. P. B. <george.banyard@gmail.com> wrote:
> A rather short RFC about adding support for the "0o" prefix for octal
> integers.
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/explicit_octal_notation
>
> Surprisingly PHP already accepts the prefix within octdec() and
> base_convert().
>
> I have hopefully covered all the cases where this may apply but if you find
> another one please let me know.
>
>
+1
As for deprecating the old syntax in the future, I'd be in favor of that.
I've been bit by this subtle number format a couple of times and writing a
tool to auto-convert to the new format is trivial. Here's about 3 minutes
worth of effort, for example:
https://gist.github.com/sgolemon/6f9fbb3a95352cbab9297319022d19a5
-Sara