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From: rcs91900@zach.fit.edu ( Charles Stockman /ADVISOR-Clutterham)
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Subject: A change to the C++ standard
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Date: 5 Apr 91 19:23:19 GMT
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I am writing a C++ compiler and have one quick question

In C/C++ Octal is defined as 

      012 (octal) --> 10 (decimal)

Instead of starting octals off with a 0 I am planning to start them of with
0o 
   
      0o12 (octal) --> 10 (decimal)

The reason is that I want to make it easier to build the scanner.  By using
0o all I would have to do is check for 0o and surely know if it was an
octal or not.  In the Ansi standard either an octal or a floating digit 
may start with a 0 so it would take longer to decide if it was an octal or
floating point and the code would not be as clean.

        045 --> octal
        0.3 --> floating point

Well --> What do you think, should I change it or keep it the same ?