Aaron Sherman wrote: > For example, zero-filled numbers are not converted to octal because > many text files contain zero-filled numbers. > > The idea that "0cat" is "0", but "0xat" is 10 will confuse a lot of folk.
It all should be at least possible to do, but not mandatory. > If strings in numeric context are treated the same way as the parser > would, then I think there need to be warnings for trailing garbage. There's already a warning for that. > No, I think if you want "10_000" to be 10000, you can always > eval it, but I don't think anyone reading in text should expect > that. I don't think that evaling input should be the best solution. In all of those proposition, the underscore seems to be the simplest and the less ambiguous one. - RaFaL Pocztarski, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
