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bug#57090: [BUG] Default Notation for chmod in guix style?


From: Csepp
Subject: bug#57090: [BUG] Default Notation for chmod in guix style?
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 21:01:15 +0000

Christopher Rodriguez <yewscion@gmail.com> writes:

> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
>
> Hello,
>
> I've noticed that, when I explicitly declare absolute permissions in
> octal during a (chmod …) in my package definitions and then run guix
> style, it converts them to decimal instead.
>
> Is this intended? I've gotten feedback and agree that octal (#o755) is
> much clearer to read than decimal (493), simply because I'm used to the
> actual unix chmod tool and its conventions.

Seems to be a Scheme limitation:

```
scheme@(guile-user)> '(#o10)
$1 = (8)
```





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