add octal literals

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/syntax.md b/syntax.md
index 6413f8a..c195811 100644
--- a/syntax.md
+++ b/syntax.md
@@ -74,9 +74,10 @@ Subsequent characters may have any of the above-listed Unicode categories, or on
 

 ## Constants

 

-A *constant* can have one of five types:

+A *constant* can have one of six types:

 - a *decimal constant*, a sequence of characters drawn from the set {`0`, `1`, `2`, `3`, `4`, `5`, `6`, `7`, `8`, `9`, `_`};

 - a *binary constant*, a prefix (either `0b` or `0B`) followed by a sequence of characters drawn from the set {`0`, `1`, `_`};

+- an *octal constant*, the prefix `0o` followed by a sequence of characters drawn from the set {`0`, `1`, `2`, `3`, `4`, `5`, `6`, `7`, `_`};

 - a *hexadecimal constant*, a prefix (either `0x` or `0X`) followed by a sequence of characters drawn from the set {`0`, `1`, `2`, `3`, `4`, `5`, `6`, `7`, `8`, `9`, `A`, `a`, `B`, `b`, `C`, `c`, `D`, `d`, `E`, `e`, `F`, `f`, `_`};

 - a *floating-point constant*, a decimal constant followed by one of

     - `.` followed by a decimal constant,

diff --git a/vs-c.md b/vs-c.md
index b6cbcd5..fe4ed3e 100644
--- a/vs-c.md
+++ b/vs-c.md
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ Some of the footguns and complexity in C come from misfeatures that can simply n
 Some constructs in C are almost always the wrong thing.

 

 -   `goto`

--   Octal literals

 -   Hexadecimal float literals

 -   Wide characters

 -   Digraphs

@@ -55,6 +54,7 @@ However, sometimes it just sucks, and in those cases Crowbar makes changes.
 -   `_Bool` is just `bool`, `_Complex` is just `complex` (why drag the preprocessor into it?)

 -   Adding a `_` to numeric literals as a separator

 -   All string literals, char literals, etc are UTF-8

+-   Octal literals have a `0o` prefix (never `0O` because that looks nasty)

 

 # Additions