From: Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@...>
Date: 2001-07-04T07:22:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17198] enhancing Ruby error messages for out of the bound constant Fixnum?

Hi,


When you try to use out-of-the-bound octal values with Perl, you get a
warning when -w, see:

[gc@obiwan ~] echo -e "_123456789_" | perl -w -pe 's/\067/x/'
_123456x89_
[gc@obiwan ~] echo -e "_123456789_" | perl -w -pe 's/\068/x/'
Illegal octal digit '8' ignored at -e line 1.
Illegal octal digit '8' ignored at -e line 1.
_123456789_
[gc@obiwan ~] echo -e "_123456789_" | perl -w -pe 's/\070/x/'
_1234567x9_


But with Ruby here, it silently does, well, I don't know:

[gc@obiwan ~] echo -e "_123456789_" | ruby -w -pe 'sub(/\067/,"x")'
_123456x89_
[gc@obiwan ~] echo -e "_123456789_" | ruby -w -pe 'sub(/\068/,"x")'
_123456789_
[gc@obiwan ~] echo -e "_123456789_" | ruby -w -pe 'sub(/\070/,"x")'
_1234567x9_


While in the following situation it behaves as expected:

[gc@obiwan ~] ruby -e 'p 067'
55
[gc@obiwan ~] ruby -e 'p 068'
-e:1: parse error


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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://mandrakesoft.com/~gc/