Re: The "leading zero means octal" thing...

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.unix.shell.] # because tcl and vim are covered.

with <vlcbrr$2ito3$1@news.xmission.com> Kenny McCormack wrote:

First of all, yes, I know this is all standardized and it is based on
legacy C conventions and it can't be changed and so on and so forth.

*CUT* [ 16 lines   1 level deep]

Totally weird and unexpected.

Quick grep through bash.info yelded nothing.  But there is hope -- come
to the dark side, zsh has cookies:

% echo $(( 010 - 1 ))
9

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