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On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:51:54AM +0100, Hugo wrote:
> In <20010530211133.Q13243@chaos.wustl.edu>, Jarkko Hietaniemi writes:
> :Something like this would 'fix' the problem but I'm not certain
> :whether this is the right thing to do. Do we want "0x10" + "010" + "0b10"
> :to produce 26, and if so, with or without warnings?
>
> I don't think we do: for a long time we have taught people that "37xa"
> numifies to 37, and I think it is unreasonable and unhelpful now to
> change "0xa" to numify to something other than 0. I think your example
> should numify to 0 + 10 + 0 = 10.
Well, in that case we must go in the other direction and stop some
Atof()s from numifying "0xa" to 10.
> Hugo
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