On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 03:38:54PM -0500, Joshua Isom wrote: > The man page for indent does say "it has a 'forgiving' parser" so I > don't see why it can't just treat any token starting with a zero as > special, treat 0b01, 0x0A, 0f4 and 010 as a number regardless of the > base, even if it doesn't know the base.
I think indent(1) has to check the base in order to split tokens
consistently. Consider the following statements:
read | write | description
--------------+---------------+-----------------------------
42 | 42 | Decimal
42e+3 | 42e+3 | Decimal
042 | 042 | Octal
042e+3 | 042e+3 | Octal?? gcc compiles this but the result
| | looks strange...
0x42 | 0x42 | Hexadecimal
0x42e+3 | 0x42e + 3 | Hexadecimal + Decimal
IMHO, checking numbers base is a requirement for splitting tokens
wisely.
Regards
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