On 22 May 2015 at 04:46, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote:
> I did a litle research and it appears that neither Oracle nor db2 supports
> the 0xff syntax ... so not _quite_ as common as it seemed to me.
> With all that being said, if I were to build a patch, would it be likely
> to be accepted into core?
Wouldn't you also need to support similar syntax for octal numbers for
the patch to be complete? Or are those already supported (ISTR that's
'077' for decimal 63)?
Not that I care at all about octal numbers, but supporting one and not
the other just doesn't seem right.
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