Comment #513
Dwayne Robinson wrote
the following reply to
https://scripter.co/golang-quirk-number-strings-starting-with-0-are-octals/:
I'm glad to see that some languages (e.g. Python 3 in PEP 3127) have realized this faux pas and fixed it rather blindly propagating C's mistake forward. What's really screwy is that in C, 042.0 is 42, but 042 is 66 o_O. Sadly Go maintainers rejected: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/151
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