Re: [bug-gawk] mystrtonum for any awk (Was: Handling hexadecimals in different modes)

[Jarno Suni]

On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:11:17 +0300
Aharon Robbins <address@hidden> wrote:

> Thanks for this code.
> 
> Are you willing:
> 
> 1. To sign paperwork putting this code into the public domain?

How would signing paperwork happen? Would the author be mentioned
anywhere in the manual? 

I have to change the code a bit to make it return proper "+nan"+0 in
error cases. The test harness could be simplified. Or even removed,
what do you think?

> 2. To write a prose description of how it works for the
> manual?

Well, it depends. The code and comments tell how it works. I could add
few comments. I suppose I could do some kind of usage instructions or
manual for it, too. Is there something unclear in how the converter
works?

BTW Perl is going to change its handling of octal numbers with version
6:
http://design.perl6.org/S02.html#Radix_markers

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