The latest browsers do not support the octal case anymore so I'm inclined to say it should be left alone. I doubt it would ever be an issue.
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 7:55 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > On 3/15/16, 3:57 PM, "omup...@gmail.com on behalf of OmPrakash Muppirala" > <omup...@gmail.com on behalf of bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >I think the problematic part is where strings start with "0". There might > >be some browsers adding a radix of 8. This is a supposedly deprecated > >feature. There is no way of knowing what the browser would do by default > >in this case. > > OK, so this is all about radix=8? > > I guess that leaves us two choices: > 1) Do what Andy says and just make the second param optional and see if > anyone gets burned if they are assuming a leading 0 will not be translated > as radix=8 because that's how I understand Flash/AIR works > 2) Map parseInt to Language.parseInt and have Language.parseInt check for > leading 0 not followed by "x" and set radix = 10 to guarantee exact match > with Flash/AIR? > > Either one is fine with me. > > Thoughts? > -Alex > >