On Thu, 25 May 2017 05:35:42 -0700, alex.jakime...@gmail.com wrote: > Code: > say 02 > > Result: > Potential difficulties: > Leading 0 does not indicate octal in Perl 6. Please use 0o2 if you > mean that. > at -e:1 > ------> say 02⏏<EOL> > 2 > > > To see the problem with this error message, let's see this task from > thinkperl6 book: > > 3. In math notation, leading zeros are OK, as in 02. What happens if > you try this in Perl? > > > Indeed, sometimes you'd think that leading zeros should do nothing. In > fact, I remember myself writing numbers with leading zeros a couple of > times, and I remember zero times I actually needed something in octal. > > Is there any way we can improve the error message so that it includes > this situation as well (i.e. using leading zeros to mean nothing)? > Please also consider that 6 year old kids may not know what octal is, > but the error message should be understandable anyway.
Thank you for the report. This is now fixed. Fix: https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/b6694bd0b3 Tests: none
