Re: Number Conversion

[Erik Hatcher]

Don't forget that there is a class available already called FlexInteger 
that does something similar. The 'o' and 'b' prefixes are non-standard, 
aren't they? Whereas FlexInteger uses Integer.decode().

So I'm -0 on this change given that the wrapper classes already support 
such capability.

        Erik
Peter Donald wrote:
Hi,
I would like to add a rule when we convert strings to attributes. This rule 
being;

Hexadecimal numbers begin with 0x, Octal numbers begin with 0o and binary
numbers begin with 0b, all other values are assumed to be decimal.
It is backwards compatible (as it would be invalid to include 'x', 'o' or 'b' 
in number in previous versions of ant. 

This rule would apply to all numerics (int, short, byte, long etc).
Any problesm with this?

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