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

[Grant Edwards]

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.

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