DN484073453

Subject: solving the 0ctal problem - DN [1]

Jeffrey Hobbs <Jeffrey.Hobbs@icn.siemens.de> - 31 May 1999 - comp.lang.tcl

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 While reading some docs for another language, I came across a flash
 of insight about fixing the octal problem in an "easy" manner.
 What about adding dec(int), oct(int), hex(int) and base(1..36,int)
 to the expr command?  Since people are only really seem to be
 encountering this problem in exprs anyway, it seems like a good
 fit.  For most, you would just wrap the desired number in dec()
 (or base(10,int)) to make sure it was interpreted as a decimal num.

 That way people only have to know that possibly suspicious numbers
 (like those entered by users) that are meant to be decimals can
 be guaranteed to be interpreted as such with the above.

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