[Tutor] Why does 01 give a syntax error, but 00 (or 00...0) does not?

[Alan Gauld]

On 05/03/16 23:33, Ben Finney wrote:

>> But then why is 00...0 valid, that is, does not give a syntax error?
> 
> At one level, the answer is: because the language reference declares
> those rules for the syntax.
> 
> At another level, the answer is: I don't know why that decision was
> made, and on the face of it I disagree.

I assume because decimal numbers are the default and without
this exception you couldn't type 0 without typing 0?0

Where '?' is whatever code is used for decimal. But since its
default you don't normally need a code. I'm not even sure
what it is? Is there one?


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