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Re: expr integer format always decimal?
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: expr integer format always decimal? |
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Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:58:19 +0200 |
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address@hidden (Bob Proulx) writes:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
>> So, under your interpretation, "expr 010" would print 8, but "expr 010
>> + 0" would print 10? That doesn't sound right to me.
>
> My question was why couldn't a conforming implementation interpret 010
> as octal and therefore print a decimal 8?
010 is surely a valid decimal number.
Andreas.
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