Comment 138 for bug 214366

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In , Neil-httl (neil-httl) wrote :

(In reply to aceman from comment #125)
> I knew octal literals are deprecated so somehow I extended that to hex too.
> Thanks.

The only reason old-style octal literals are deprecated is because it's too easy to confuse them with decimal literals e.g. 160 - 060 != 100. Hex literals and new-style octal literals (0o60) are fine, of course.