Re: [RFC] Add support for explicit octal notation for integer literals

On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 16:56, Eugene Sidelnyk <zsidelnik@gmail.com> wrote: > What is the practical use case for this. I think it will make code a bit > more confusing > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 5:59 PM G. P. B. <george.banyard@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello internals, >> >> 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. >> >> Best regards >> >> George P. Banyard >> > Please send all replies to the list as no one else can see them. (And please don't top post). I don't understand how this can be *more* confusing than: 014 evaluating to 12 because it's interpreted as an octal. The point is to make it explicit that it's an octal number in the same way we have 0x1A = 26 for hexadecimal numbers, and similarly 0b prefix for binary integer literals. Regards, George P. Banyard