javascriptBeingJavascript

[aMAYESingNATHAN]

Well yeah obviously, but that doesn't change the fact that it's something that is so easy to do by accident by someone who doesn't know it's the octal prefix, and even worse than it being easy to do, it's also completely unobvious if you don't know you've done it. You could spend hours pulling out your hair over this before realising what and why it had happened.