Leading zeros are explicitly forbidden in Semantic Versioning

[dimalinux]

This call version.NewSemver("1.010.2") should return an error due to the leading zero on the minor version, but it does not. When you add a leading zero, it is not clear if the number is in octal or base 10.

The wording of the specification (https://semver.org/) is:

A normal version number MUST take the form X.Y.Z where X, Y, and Z are non-negative integers, and MUST NOT contain leading zeroes. X is the major version, Y is the minor version, and Z is the patch version. Each element MUST increase numerically. For instance: 1.9.0 -> 1.10.0 -> 1.11.0.

[kevinashaw]

The possibility of someone using Octal in a version number is laughably low. Leading zeros are commonly used to improving file sorting in file systems.

[dimalinux]

The possibility of someone using Octal in a version number is laughably low.

I wasn't suggesting that anyone would. The chance that a numeric parser will see the leading zero and parse the number incorrectly as octal is extremely high. There is a reason the standard forbids leading zeros.