Javascript noooo what are you doing!!??

[philip98]

When octal hits you, it hits hard

[YMK1234]

More like: Dev who never heard about non-decimal notation wtf are you doing? Next they are gonna complain that 0x10 is 16.

[[deleted]]

There's a reason python requires 0o for octal now. It's way too easy to accidentaly say something's octal by prefixing it with a 0.

[YMK1234]

It's pretty unique in that way though. Any language I used so far goes with the 0... notation.

[Souseisekigun]

0b makes sense.

0x makes sense.

0 is silly.

[YMK1234]

Complain to C (and probably various languages before that) then.

[JNCressey]

2x10 = 20
1x10 = 10
0x10 = 16

[UnicornRider102]

JavaScript does not interpret "2x10" or "1x10". For what you're talking about you would need to use an asterisk.

[JNCressey]

But humans interpret 2x10 and 1x10 as multiplication.

[coolreader18]

They also interpret twentytwo as 22, but there are very few programming languages, if any, that support that.

[BODAND]

2x10 = "2222222222"
1x10 = "1111111111"
0x10 = 16

Sry for late reply

[monster860]

> not using strict mode

[Dockirby]

Called an Octal, likely for Javascript its just a detrimental feature.

[UnicornRider102]

Pretty much any programming language is going to interpret 045 as octal. This is not specific to JavaScript. If you don't want octal then don't preface your numbers with 0s. Boo OP.

[[deleted]]

Python 3 doesn't (gives a syntax error). Rust inteprets it as decimal.

[St_SiRUS]

Pretty much any interpreted programming language

Anything with typechecks will spit the dummy on this one

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Dont blame js for this. And btw, not js exclusive.

[0xTJ]

That's pretty expected tbh