Come on, C is fun!

What do I C before my eyes ?

Dunno if troll or...

@Glamhoth try it yourself!

A number preceded by 0 in C is interpreted as octal (like 0x for hex). So 010 is actually 8 which indeed is smaller than 9.

TL;DR It's no bug, it's a feature 😀

For reference: https://cs.umd.edu/class/sum2003/...

@kwerdenker Thank you for spoiling it :/

@Gauthier Oh, sorry. Didn't know that you knew. Was assuming you thought you really found a bug...

@kwerdenker it's ok ;) But I do think they should have chosen a better way. Like 8b10, or something like that. I was bitten by this years ago, when I formatted a large byte array with 3 digits for all. It looked better but is didn't work for bytes below 100...

@Gauthier As with most things, I assume someone just needed a way to represent a different integer base and had to write his own compiler parser for it. As programmers are known for their lazyne... efficiency, he just said used the simplest way possible. And with most "temporary" things it somehow stuck and is now part of the feature list.

@kwerdenker I think it has moreto do with backward compatibility. At the time C was created, octal was much more usual than now.

@kwerdenker actually I was wondering what was going on here so thx :)

@kwerdenker thanks I was wondering what was happening here

s/ten/eight

Feel really bad up voting that 69 to a 70, but... you know, emacs.

@nerd-san What's so bad? It seems like many here didn't get it right away.
And you know what? Emacs, in termux on my Android phone 😎

@nerd-san oh, maybe you meant... Because 69?

@Gauthier 😉