From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-07-06T15:50:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17389] Re: enhancing Ruby error messages for out of the bound constant Fixnum?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:17328] Re: enhancing Ruby error messages for out of the bound constant Fixnum?"
    on 01/07/06, Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> writes:

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

Sorry.

|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.

And 99% of the time, he's thinking in base 10.

Anyway, the biggest point is current regex.c has no gadget to report
warning.   So I have to design warning system for regex first.

							matz.