Re: Arithmetic evaluation of negative numbers with base prefix

2019-06-17 Thread Ilkka Virta
On 17.6. 18:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 02:30:27PM +0100, Jeremy Townshend wrote: In the meantime it would seem cautionary to advise against the pitfall of using base# prefixed to variables (contrary to mywiki.wooledge.org/ArithmeticExpression) unless you can be confident

Re: Arithmetic evaluation of negative numbers with base prefix

2019-06-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 02:30:27PM +0100, Jeremy Townshend wrote: > In the meantime it would seem cautionary to advise against the pitfall of > using base# prefixed to variables (contrary to > mywiki.wooledge.org/ArithmeticExpression) unless you can be confident that > they will never be

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2019-06-17 Thread Eugen Konkov
Hello Bug-bash, detailed explanation [here](https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/525406/129967) -- Best regards, Eugen Konkov

Re: Arithmetic evaluation of negative numbers with base prefix

2019-06-17 Thread Jeremy Townshend
Dear Chet Many thanks for your impressively swift response. It is enlightening to see how these expressions are parsed. For the record, whilst I can now see how they are parsed, it feels particularly unsatisfactory that the following two expressions yield the same result when the variable i