Octal literals

[emberian]

It's a strange omission. There are hex and binary literals, but no octal!

[emberian]

Proposed syntax: 0o432

[emberian]

An octal! macro would be equally acceptable.

[emberian]

Meh, closing, not important.

[setharnold]

Please reconsider this feature request; Unix permissions are most easily expressed using octal permissions.

While expressing permissions via binary 0b111_101_101 is workable, I suspect most of us would do the mental arithmetic to re-write that to 0o755. Clever macros can mask some of this -- see e.g., https://gist.github.com/kmcallister/7312179 -- but asking each chmod() or umask() user to either re-implement them or discover and import such a package feels awkward compared to supporting 0o ... syntax directly in the language.

Thanks

[emberian]

@setharnold see #10243

[emberian]

Since fixed.