[Development] Octal IP in Version 5,1 ?

[Joseph Crowell]

On 19/08/2013 02:26 AM, Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote:
> On 18 August 2013 16:59, Randolph D. <rdohm321 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I wounder who invented this nonsense, that with entering an IP Address and
>>   if there is a leading 0, it is interpreted as octal, base 8
>>   010 octal is 8 decimal
>>
>> this means users have to enter this carefully?
>>
>> Any idea how to make it simple like in Qt 4,8
> Sorry, but... what are you talking about? Your message lacks any context.
>
> Moreover, this is the ML for the development *of* Qt. Are you sure
> your message belongs to this list, instead of the "interest" list,
> which is the one for developing *with* Qt?
>
As a side note, why not remove all the leading zeroes. 10.1.1.5 would 
read fine where 010.001.001.005 wouldn't because no one passes IP 
addresses with leading zeroes.