From: Florian Gross <florgro@...>
Date: 2007-07-16T02:07:44+09:00
Subject: Re: rb_cstr_to_inum use of strtoul as an optimization has unfortunate side effects

On another note, String#oct allows the base to be changed by a base
prefix:

"0b1010".oct.to_s(2) # => "1010"
"0xff".oct.to_s(16) # => "ff"
"0d20".oct.to_s(10) # => "20"

Which is somewhat against the expectation the method name creates and
inconsistent with String#hex:

"0b1010".hex.to_s(16) # => "b1010"
"0o77".hex.to_s(16) # => "0"
"0d20".hex.to_s(16) # => "d20"

Is this by design? The change would be highly trivial. (Change one
character in string.c)