We're not talking about parsing in base 10, we're talking about parsing in base 8. I need to be able to tell if the parse succeeded or not, silently hiding err

We're not talking about parsing in base 10, we're talking about parsing in base 8. I need to be able to tell if the parse succeeded or not, silently hiding errors is bad. The correct behaviour demonstrated in perl and python: $ perl -le 'print 07' 7 $ perl -le 'print 08' Illegal octal digit '8' at -e line 1, at end of line Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. $ python -c 'print 07' 7 $ python -c 'print 08' File "", line 1 print 08 ^ SyntaxError: invalid token