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0 pointswtetzner6y ago0 comments

Why not use 0x,0b, and 0o for hex, binary, and octal literals? I never liked the fact that a number starting with 0 was treated as octal.

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OCaml does just that; it might have been the first language to have 0b and 0o prefixes for binary and octal literals.

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0 pointswtetzner6y ago0 comments

Why not use 0x,0b, and 0o for hex, binary, and octal literals? I never liked the fact that a number starting with 0 was treated as octal.

OCaml does just that; it might have been the first language to have 0b and 0o prefixes for binary and octal literals.

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