eval('07') works, eval('08') fails, why?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Grant Edwards a écrit :
> On 2009-01-08, Alex van der Spek <amvds at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks much, that makes sense!
> 
> Well, that's the correct explanation.
> 
> Whether that feature makes sense or not is debatable.  Even I'm
> not old-school enough that I ever use octal literals -- and I
> used Unix on a PDP-11 for years (actually had my own PDP-11 for
> while, but it never worked).  Now that I think of it, my
> Heathkit Z80 stuff used octal notation too.

What about your DeathStation 9000 ?-)