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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Subject: Re: A change to the C++ standard
Message-ID: <1991Apr6.032809.21939@grebyn.com>
Summary: You would be well advised not to do this.
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
References: <2264@winnie.fit.edu>
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1991 03:28:09 GMT

In article <2264@winnie.fit.edu> rcs91900@zach.fit.edu ( Charles Stockman /ADVISOR-Clutterham) writes:
>I am writing a C++ compiler and have one quick question
>Instead of starting octals off with a 0 I am planning to start them of with
>0o 
>      0o12 (octal) --> 10 (decimal)

This is not a good idea.  This makes your compiler unable to compile a
great deal of existing code, so you shouldn't really call it C++.
Of course, if you want to invent a new language, that's up to you!  Then
you could make all the arbitrary syntax decisions you want to.
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