From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-08-19T07:25:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in sprintf?

William Crawford wrote:
> 
> 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.)
> 

This comes from C, and is at least 30 years old.

The zero looks like an O, which stands for Octal.

Be glad it's not Pascal, where 377B is an octal
number (because B looks like an 8).


Hal