On: Go 1.13 Release Notes

[ptman]

To not break go1 backwards compat?

[Gibbon1 → ptman]

Compatible with what exactly. No one uses octal.

Here is a link to Pike fucking it up 10 years ago.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/151#issuecomment-6604830...

[psanford → Gibbon1]

Lots of code uses octal. Its still the standard way of notating file permission bits on unix: os.Chmod(filename, 0777).

You would break so much code if you just threw that away.

[tandr → psanford]

> standard way of notating file permission bits on unix: os.Chmod(filename, 0777)

... and honestly, is the ONLY place where I have ever seen octal been used.

[Gibbon1 → psanford]

> Chmod(filename, 0777)

Nice example of something else that should have been depreciated about 35 years ago.