After we remove support for vertical tab can we drop octal literals from every language? As fun as it is to snicker at a young programmer who spent 2 hours debugging
x = 0123
it's time for octal to go away.
x = 0123
it's time for octal to go away.
[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7825055/what-does-the-c-o...
Scala recently removed it altogether: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-5205
Other languages (Python 3, Ruby) are moving to the 0o syntax.