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Re: [isocpp-wg14/wg21-liaison] Question re: P0085R3: Oo... adding a coherent character sequence to begin octal-literals

From: Jens Maurer <jens.maurer_at_[hidden]>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2026 21:07:42 +0200
On 5/7/26 16:32, Jan Schultke via Liaison wrote:
> As I remember it, the timeline for removal of the feature was not brought up during the meeting. The minutes also don't record that.
>
> The focus of the deprecation discussion was which of 01 and 001 would be deprecated, with the goal to align the C and C++ deprecations to ensure compatibility.

No, the discussion was around "0" vs. "00" vs. "000".

All of 01 and 001 and 0001 would continue to be fine, as far as I understand.
(At least that wasn't discussed, as far as I understand.)

Jens


> On Thu, 7 May 2026 at 16:13, Hubert Tong via Liaison <liaison_at_[hidden] <mailto:liaison_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> With respect to the deprecation of multi-digit octal literals using the plain 0 suffix, there is a culture (in WG 21) of expecting that deprecation leads to eventual removal. Was that clear in the discussion in April (https://github.com/sg22-c-cpp-standard-compatibility/sg-compatibility/blob/main/meetings/2026-04-24.md <https://github.com/sg22-c-cpp-standard-compatibility/sg-compatibility/blob/main/meetings/2026-04-24.md>)?
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> -- HT
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