Any other Python flaws?

[Michael Robin]

"Tony J Ibbs (Tibs)" <tony at lsl.co.uk> wrote in message news:<mailman.992945069.12753.python-list at python.org>...
> Duncan Booth wrote:
> >    BCPL Octal constants use '#', e.g. #177 and hex constants
> > are '#X', e.g. #X7F, so like the dangling else, the leading
> > 0 was an 'improvement' brought in post BCPL.

According to my "The Programming Language B" (Johnson and Kernighan,
1973) report, the leading 0 for octal seems to have been introduced
here, square between BCBL and C.

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