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In article <4711.2843a523@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>, herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes:
> In article <12526@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
> [Herman supplies some of the specifics people have been asking for]
> 
>> There are provisions for octal and hex
>> integers [in c],

[Never being slow with the foot around an open mouth, I said]
> 
> I thought so too, and one day I tried to write an integer constant
> in octal.  The compiler said, "Nuts to you!"  It took some hours,
> but I finally convinced myself that the compiler manual and then
> Kernigan and Ritchie provide octal notation for CHARACTERS.  Nothing
> else!  I thought it was a major design flaw and was no accident.
> 
> dan herrick
> herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com

Several people have quietly pointed out that c recognizes constants
with a leading zero as octal numerals.  Even one from Edinburgh
Castle (according to his domain name)!

So now I know I was dumb that day several years ago - I honestly did
work hard trying to find it in the indexes and so on, but I was
fixated on the \377 notation, which probably blinded me to 0777.

Thank you all.

dan herrick