Hmm. You'll have to try much harder to explain your point. I'm fully aware of the facts you repeat above, but I'm completely lost as to why you felt it an appropriate response to my node. I also disagree with your use of "wrongly" and "should". You also appear to disagree with your own uses of "wrongly" and "should" in other replies in these threads.

The rest of that (complex) sentence that you partially quoted includes:

if it's a bareword that would be a legal simple identifier

And 08 isn't a legal simple indentifier (and thus there is no "problem"). Nor is 08 a bareword (by either definition). And I know you know this because elsewhere you noted this (though your inclusion of "hyphen" in your explanation was erroneous).

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