Re: implicit_str_to_num_ok=1

[John W. Eaton]

On  5-Jul-1999, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:

| The only way to write portable code that remains user-friendly is to
| ignore all defaults, save all builtins that might affect your code,
| set them to what you require, and restore them before exiting.

I don't think the situation is quite that bad.  In most cases, I think
it is possible to avoid the dependence on any particular setting of
the built-in variables.

jwe



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