# New Ticket Created by Matt Oates # Please include the string: [perl #126997] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126997 >
If no other numeric literal is given as a base along with the unicode exponent characters exponentiation is done on the first digit of the exponent. This I feel should instead at least warn the base is being assumed, if not be a compile time error. Worse assuming a single digit base mixup feels really bad since the code silently succeeds in a way defined by the implementation not explicitly by the programmer. $ perl6 say ⁸⁸ 16777216 say 8⁸ 16777216
