On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Philip Guenther <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Benny Lofgren <[email protected]> wrote:
>> + Makes it able to use C-style radix prefixes to integers in order to do
>> calculations in octal and hexadecimal.
...
> Unfortunately, this would make expr violate POSIX.

I should note that this would be legal behavior if a non-POSIX option
was used.  For example, it would be legal to behave like this if any
of your proposed -c, -o, -x, or -X options were used.


Philip Guenther

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