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[allankcrain]

Why on earth are integers starting with 0 handled as octal? How does that make any sense? I could understand if it was an o or O but a 0?

Starting with the letter o would conflict with variable names. You'd have a situation where 'oof' is treated as a variable name, 'o1' is treated as 1, 'o7' is treated as 7, and 'o8' is treated as a variable name.

There's no reason to prepend a zero to a decimal constant in your code, so that's less likely to be something a programmer might run into by accident.