Well! You learn something new every day. Ironically, I knew about octal, but back in the day when I was learning Java, the book I was reading didn't have a typeface that distinguished O and 0 very well, and since I never had to use them I never was corrected. Interesting.
Thanks! On Mar 12, 5:14 pm, Shawn Hoover <shawn.hoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > > Am 12.03.2009 um 22:08 schrieb levand: > > > Seems like there's a bug here. All the digits less than 8 work. If > >> leading zeros aren't allowed, at least the behavior ought to be > >> consistent. > > > Leading zeros indicate octal, which has no digits like 8 or 9... > > > In so far it's not a bug nor is it inconsistent, I guess. > > Indeed. And if you just use 0-7 and it's all good: > user> 010 > 8 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
