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uiuccsb!eich    May  4 18:32:00 1984


Reference Manual, 2.4.1 (p180)

	An integer constant consisting of a sequence of digits is taken
	to be octal if it begins with 0 (digit zero), decimal otherwise.
	The digits 8 and 9 have octal value 10 and 11 respectively.

So this isn't a PCC lapse.  And what's wrong with it?  The alternatives
are either to treat the number as decimal or to flag an error.  Neither
seems better to me.

Brendan Eich
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