in reply to How to Switch off octal interpretation of literal ?

A hint from the "dark ages of computing": ;-)

Use strings!

  DB<3> p 300 . 023     # octal
30019

  DB<4> p "300" . "023" # "decimal"
300023

  DB<5> p "300" + "023" # decimal
323

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Cheers Rolf
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