[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: > Paul Eggert wrote: >> So, under your interpretation, "expr 010" would print 8, but "expr 010 >> + 0" would print 10? That doesn't sound right to me. > > My question was why couldn't a conforming implementation interpret 010 > as octal and therefore print a decimal 8?
010 is surely a valid decimal number. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
