On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 04:29:31PM +0100, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > > In our previous episode, Mattias Gaertner said: > > > Why not write &666? Maybe some religious reasons? ;) > > > > No, simply that octal literal support is newer than the *nix rtl. > > ok, although then again: When came binary and hexadecimal?
Decimal and hexadecimal from the start, octal and binary since early 1.9.x versions. The *nix rtl is from christmas 2003. (1.1 versions) _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal