in reply to Re^2: A philosophical pondering concerning hexes
in thread A philosophical pondering concerning hexes
My guess is that he means something like:
To me, this is just what's Perl is about; regardless of what you throw at it, it does it utter best to make something out of it, and it issues a warning there's something odd about the input. Although in this case, it isn't just Perl that does so - the C functions strtol, and atoi and friends also consume initial portions of a string, stopping at the first character that isn't valid.$ perl -wle 'print oct 108' Illegal octal digit '8' ignored at -e line 1. 8
Abigail
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Re^2: A philosophical pondering concerning hexes
by diotalevi (Canon) on Jun 24, 2004 at 12:53 UTC | |
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jun 24, 2004 at 13:06 UTC | |
by diotalevi (Canon) on Jun 24, 2004 at 13:13 UTC | |
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jun 24, 2004 at 13:26 UTC | |
by diotalevi (Canon) on Jun 25, 2004 at 19:26 UTC |
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