[Tcl-bugs] [ tcl-Patches-1805896 ] Die Octal Die

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Patches item #1805896, was opened at 2007-10-01 15:55
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Category: 47. Number Handling
Group: TIP Implementation
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 9
Private: No
Submitted By: Don Porter (dgp)
Assigned to: Don Porter (dgp)
Summary: Die Octal Die

Initial Comment:

At the TCT panel at this year's
Tcl Conference, there appeared to
be general agreement that it was
time to kill octal.

Here's a patch implementing that,
so we can all be sure we mean the
same thing.

Note that this effort exposed
Bug 1805887, which also
needs fixing.

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>Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2007-10-18 12:51

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Here's yet another patch,
this one implementing 
"Option 1" as described in
a message to TCLCORE. 
File Added: option1.patch

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Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2007-10-17 12:48

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An alternative proposal raised
on TCLCORE is to revise TclParseNumber
to simply reject all multi-digit
integers that start with "0".  Here's
a patch that does that, so folks can
try the concept on for size.
File Added: alternative.patch

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Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2007-10-15 17:29

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Most of the patch simply makes various
parts of Tcl ([file attributes -permissions],
for example) continue to work as they have
whether or not Tcl treats all leading-0
strings as octal format in an integer context.

Committed that portion, leaving only the

#define KILL_OCTAL 

change left to commit to actually kill octal
( along with suitable doc updates)


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Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2007-10-11 17:57

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Updated patch.
File Added: 1805896.patch

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