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Lots of code uses octal. Its still the standard way of notating file permission bits on unix: os.Chmod(filename, 0777). You would break so much code if you jus

Lots of code uses octal. Its still the standard way of notating file permission bits on unix: os.Chmod(filename, 0777). You would break so much code if you just threw that away.

Gibbon1 7y ago
> Chmod(filename, 0777) Nice example of something else that should have been depreciated about 35 years ago.
tandr 7y ago
> standard way of notating file permission bits on unix: os.Chmod(filename, 0777) ... and honestly, is the ONLY place where I have ever seen octal been used.