From: Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@...>
Date: 2001-07-06T01:01:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17328] Re: enhancing Ruby error messages for out of the bound constant Fixnum?

David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:


[...]

> > > It considers the pattern /\068/ as \06 (octal 6) and following "8".
> > > Sould it parse like Perl's?
> >
> > Definitely, when you write \067 and then \068, you don't expect that one
> > is parsed as octal 67 and the other one octal 6 then 8.
> >
> > I think it should parse like Perl's..
> 
> I'm still not getting what the difference is, other than a warning
> from Perl and no warning from Ruby.

Yes, sorry, there is no difference, I just used the word "parse" following
expression from matz.

What I meant is that it should issue a warning because 95% of the time
you'll not mean \06 *then* 8 when you write \068.


Anyway, just my personal feeling.



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