Re: [TCLCORE] TIP 114: Die Octal Die

[Andreas L. <av...@lo...>]

I just want to contribute my thoughts...

I intended to protest against completely making errors
for octals, because for any two digit-number, be it 03
or 08,  there would be a clear semantic.  Only numbers
larger than two digits plus leading zero would be
problematic in interpretation: 010  can be 10 or 8.

Since I think that inadvertent octal numbers appear 
mostly in date-arithmetics, where we always have
zero-padded two digit numbers,  decimal interpretation
would just solve the problems without creating new ones.

Anyway, then it occurred to me, that "day-of-year"
still induces the same problem: e.g. 042 is ambiguous.

So, while I really wouldn't mind 00 till 09 to be interpreted
decimally as special cases, anything beyond that should
really throw an error rather than silently switch to
decimal for now.  But I also understand that such special-
casing *also* (just like not doing it!) has its disadvantages.