On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 06:36:48PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
If you choose to pass nonsensical data into the integer print utility
there's no defined output, because you're using the program outside of
its stated purpose.
And in CS it's common practice then to give an error or warning... I
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 13:28:20 +0100
Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And in CS it's common practice then to give an error or warning... I
don't see what your problem is with adding a warning to stderr in such
cases. Just silently truncating at the point where you cannot find a
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It's a classic design disagreement, ...automobile safety belts...
...Jack Williamson's 'Humanoid' stories...
I find these comparisons to be totally out of the scope of the issue
we're discussing.
Culture clash. Who's culture or what region's customs determines
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On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:36:48 +0100
Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see no need to change anything here. The program does what it says
it does...
It's a classic design disagreement, an example favorable to my side
would be the introduction of automobile
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It's a classic design disagreement, an example favorable to my side
would be the introduction of automobile safety belts -- some automakers
(and drivers) didn't want them, and destructively reasoned that a car
doesn't drive
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 12:17 -0400, A. Costa wrote:
Clear enough, but these seem less intuitive:
% i 1234abc
1234 0x4D2 02322 0b10011010010
% i 1abc234
1 0x1 01 0b1
While I was looking in to this, I discovered that the manpage documents
this behaviour:
Otherwise, if an
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:02:16 +0100
Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
% i 1abc234
1 0x1 01 0b1
While I was looking in to this, I discovered that the manpage
documents this behaviour:
Otherwise, if an argument begins with a digit, it is assumed to be a
decimal number.
A. Costa wrote:
Parse the leading number prefixes to find the input data format.
Then check the rest of the string, if it's not the right format,
return an error. e.g.:
i 1abc234 ; echo $?
i: error '1abc234' is not a decimal number.
2
I prefer to just
Package: iprint
Version: 1.3-8
Severity: normal
'man i' says try arbitrary strings for demonstrative output:
% i abc1234
97 0x61 0141 0b111 'a'
98 0x62 0142 0b1100010 'b'
99 0x63 0143 0b1100011 'c'
49 0x31 061 0b110001 '1'
50 0x32 062 0b110010 '2'
51 0x33 063
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