Re: Handling of Surrogates

From: Sam Mason (sam@samason.me.uk)
Date: Fri Apr 17 2009 - 12:41:02 CDT

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    On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:14:50PM -0400, John W Kennedy wrote:
    > On Apr 17, 2009, at 7:32 AM, Sam Mason wrote:
    > > should we also reject the number one when spelled as '00000000001'?
    >
    > Quite a few programming languages will reject '00000000008'.

    You mean languages like C where leading zeros indicate the number is
    in octal form? Would 000000000001 be a better example then, something
    like:

      printf (" 1 + 1 = %i\n, 000000000001 + 00000000001);

    or am I missing something else?

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      Sam  http://samason.me.uk/
    


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