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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.
