Clarify definition of octal literals
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Tue, 17 May 2005 15:55:38 +0000 (15:55 +0000)]
(thanks to Olivier Blin)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@24493

pod/perldata.pod

index 1b02b1e..d828d4a 100644 (file)
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ integer formats:
     4_294_967_296       # underscore for legibility
     0xff                # hex
     0xdead_beef         # more hex   
-    0377                # octal
+    0377                # octal (only numbers, begins with 0)
     0b011011            # binary
 
 You are allowed to use underscores (underbars) in numeric literals