Re: Hex string literals (was Re: C23 thoughts and opinions)

bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

AFAIK nobody uses octal anymore.

There are circumstances where being able to write constants
in octal is useful.  It also would be nice to be able to
write constants in base 4 and base 32 (because 5 is half
of 10).  I don't have occasion to prefer octal very often
but I'm glad it's there for those times when I do.