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timrobinson on May 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: JSON5 — modern JSON

> [IDEA: Allow octal and hexadecimal numbers.]

Who actually uses octal, except by accident?

sneeu on May 28, 2012 [–]

The only time I ever use it is with `chmod`.

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