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  Re: Number with sign is read as octal despite a leading 10# Isaac Marcos <isaacmarcos100010@gmail.com> - 2018-07-10 16:57 -0400

#14322 — Re: Number with sign is read as octal despite a leading 10#

Chet Ramey (<chet.ramey@case.edu>) wrote:

> On 7/10/18 2:48 PM, Isaac Marcos wrote:
> >     That is not an integer constant. Integer constants don't begin with
> `-'.
>

That makes negative numbers invalid.

This is not a serious argument.

Because of the difference between an operator and a constant. Unary plus
> and minus have a higher precedence than arithmetic operators. So if you
> expand the `a' to an expression, which is what happens, the expression
> consists of an operator (+ or -) and a constant, and that expression has
> a higher precedence than the +. You might think about why using `$a' in
> place of the `a' would not work all the time.
>


I don't care. All other shells do this correctly. It makes you the only one
wrong.

This is not a serious discussion.


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