From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2002-08-05T02:37:44+09:00
Subject: Re: #Re: String -> Integer anomoly?

Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> 
> Hmmm, strikes me as a violation of POLS.
> 
> Integer("012") != "012".to_i
> 
> What do others think?

Doesn't violate my PoLS atleast. Since Integer is a method of Kernel,
and to_i (in this case) is a method of String, I am not surprised to see
them have different takes on the matter. As in 
  "Hey, I'm the kernel, and I care about hex, octal and such geeky
stuff." 
and 
  "Hey, I'm a (l)user input string, you don't think I'd be trying to be
octal or anything that geeky, do ya?"

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