On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 09:58:13PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > >> typeset -Z2 month > > That can break as soon as month is made an integer someplace down.
And that's very likely to happen ... > Padding is meant for output, not input. You don't know if $month is input or output. > tg@stinky:~ $ /bin/ksh -c 'i=10#08; print $((i)) $(uname -a)' > 8 SunOS stinky 5.8 Generic_117350-61 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210 Solaris > > So, portable across all Korn shells. Based on the invalid assumption that i is always evaluated inside an arithmetical expression.
