On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 16:56, Eugene Sidelnyk <zsidel...@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.bany...@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

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