From: William Crawford <wccrawford@...>
Date: 2006-08-19T02:06:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in sprintf?

William Crawford wrote:
> William Crawford wrote:
>> Wes Gamble wrote:
>>> I assume it's because the 08 is being as an octal number prior to being 
>>> changed to a decimal.  01 - 07 work fine, 09 breaks.
>> 
>> Because 8 isn't an octal number.  0-7 are octal.
> 
> -slaps self- Think before you reply, William.
> 
> On second thought, this -does- seem wrong.  It doesn't matter if you 
> tell it to be decimal, octal or hex, it all comes up with an error on 08 
> and 09, and not 00 to 07.

Last time, I swear. 
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/145509  Says 
that it IS trying to be octal because the 0 in front means that.  (Why 
it means that, I don't know.)

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