[issue26490] Leading “0” allowed, only for decimal zero

[Ben Finney]

Ben Finney added the comment:

> rationale unknown

That's quite a pity. The inconsistency catches people out, and the docs do not make clear why an exception is made.

> but any number of zeroes is still unambiguously zero.

Of course. But the same is true for “0003 is unambiguously three”, yet that's invalid syntax.

I won't contest closing this report. But the above is not an explanation for the inconsistency.

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