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Subject: Re: Suggested library function addition
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From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Date: 30 Jul 1997 11:31:02 -0700
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Skip Montanaro <skip@automatrix.com> writes:

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>     Karl>  I think entering file modes as decimal integers is a real pain.
> 
> Seems odd to me that numbers with leading 'O' or '0x' aren't parsed as octal
> or hex in the first place.  How much breakage would result if that
> convention was adopted?

  Much for leading 0.  Does atoi() do this magic?  Then string-to-number
should not either. :)

-Bill P.

