Bug #11648
closedUndocumented features of String#oct
Description
String#oct will adjust the base of the stringy number being converted to 2 (if prefixed with 0B), 8 (also the default, if prefixed with 0O), 10 (if prefixed with 0D), or 16 (if prefixed with 0X). Much to my surprise this behavior is not documented at ruby-doc.org [1]. Is this the intended behavior and if so should the documentation be updated? If it is not the intended behavior, perhaps String#oct should raise an exception if someone tries to use this undocumented feature?
Updated by yugui (Yuki Sonoda) almost 9 years ago
- Assignee set to matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
It is surprising for me too. But this behavior was introduced in r373 by intention.
I hope Matz remembers the original intention.
I guess Ruby followed the behavior of Perl and it was useful to handle string representation of file permissions?
Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) almost 9 years ago
- Status changed from Open to Closed
Applied in changeset r53122.
string.c: radix indicators [ci skip]
- string.c (rb_str_oct): [DOC] mention radix indicators.
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