From: Johnathon Wright <jw@...>
Date: 2011-01-18T01:25:20+09:00
Subject: Re: What are your ruby rough cuts ?

Found this recently... probably the least intuitive thing I've seen in
Ruby

## some base-10 things must be preceded by 0

ruby-1.8.7-p302 >   .123
SyntaxError: compile error
(irb):4: no .<digit> floating literal anymore; put 0 before dot
(irb):4: syntax error, unexpected '.'
        from (irb):4

ruby-1.8.7-p302 > 0.123
 => 0.123

## others can't be preceded by 0 --

ruby-1.8.7-p302 > 0123
 => 83

## meanwhile... you would think it would be the same as...
ruby-1.8.7-p302 > "0123".to_i
 => 123


## I would prefer that this be configurable...
>> ENV['ALLOW_DECIMALS_TO_CONTINUE_TO_BE_DECIMALS'] = :of_course
=> :)   # Also, there would be some easter egg where Ruby responds
with Smileys.