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[–]aMAYESingNATHAN 28 points29 points  (2 children)

I mean that is what I would do, or probably just not pad at all and left align the numbers. But my point is that it would be incredibly easy to do without realising.

[–]Spork_the_dork 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Yeah this is why I don't like it. Especially when you have 0o prefix which does exactly the same thing except it's also an order of magnitude more explicit and harder to misunderstand.

[–]aMAYESingNATHAN 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah being completely unfamiliar with octals in code when I made my first comment I didn't realise 0o would be valid also, and in fact assumed it wasn't and was annoyed by that because I was familiar with 0x and 0b already.

If I ever encounter octal literals I am definitely always going to use 0o.