XPost: comp.lang.tcl, comp.unix.shell   
   From: gazelle@shell.xmission.com   
      
   In article ,   
   Janis Papanagnou   wrote:   
   ...   
   >As a consequence, in Kornshell, I'm using a number prefix 10# to   
   >counter that misbehavior. (I'd suppose this works also in other   
   >major shells like Bash.)   
      
   Yes, bash has that, too.  But for whatever it is worth, in at least one of   
   my scripts, using it was inconvenient (*), so I ended up having to use "bc" to   
   do a calculation instead of (the more efficient/built-in) $((...)) (**).   
   Sort of annoying.   
      
   (*) Didn't work out, for some reason.   
      
   (**) Which had been working fine right up until it hit the dreaded "08".   
      
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