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| author | D. Bohdan <dbohdan@dbohdan.com> | 2020-09-08 08:52:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Steve Bennett <steveb@workware.net.au> | 2020-09-23 10:37:52 +1000 |
| commit | 0a6e801f1425225ba4b52fe91d5b75afda998a1a (patch) | |
| tree | 2f89d778e598c0b8398692bccdcbc08d9341517c | |
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docs: reword paragraph on integer prefixes
Thanks to @gromgit on GitHub for suggesting this phrasing.
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diff --git a/jim_tcl.txt b/jim_tcl.txt index 3b0a54e..21aa066 100644 --- a/jim_tcl.txt +++ b/jim_tcl.txt @@ -719,11 +719,10 @@ White space may be used between the operands and operators and parentheses; it is ignored by the expression processor. Where possible, operands are interpreted as integer values. -Integer values may be specified in decimal (the default case that can -be make explicit by prepending '0d' to the operand) or in binary, octal -or hexadecimal (if the first two characters of the operand are '0b', -'0o' or '0x' respectively). Note that Jim Tcl does *not* treat numbers -with leading zeros as octal. +Integer values are interpreted as decimal, binary, octal or +hexadecimal if prepended with '0d', '0b', '0o' or '0x' +respectively. Otherwise they are interpreted as decimal by default. +(Jim Tcl does not interpret numbers with leading zeros as octal.) If an operand does not have one of the integer formats given above, then it is treated as a floating-point number if that is |