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ES6 numeric literals

Category

JavaScript

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 41)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Allows binary and octal numeric literals using 0b101 and 0o753 respectively.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-literals-numeric-literals
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2783

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Lexical_grammar#Numeric_literals

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