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Leading-Zeros-0.0.2
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NAME

Leading::Zeros - Defuse Perl's octal number representation

VERSION

This document describes Leading::Zeros version 0.0.2

SYNOPSIS

    no Leading::Zeros;

    my $answer = 042;       # dies

DESCRIPTION

This module offers some control over Perl's insidious "leading-zero-means-octal" notation.

INTERFACE

If the module is loaded via a no:

    no Leading::Zeros;

then any subsequent attempt to use an integer constant with a leading zero, causes an exception to be thrown. The intention is to prevent you from doing so by accident.

If the module is loaded via a use, like so:

    use Leading::Zeros;

then it silently pretends that any octal value (say, 042) was really a decimal value (i.e. 42).

If the module is loaded with the special -warning flag:

    use Leading::Zeros -warning;

then octal numbers are treated as usual (i.e. as octals), but a warning is issued. See below.

DIAGNOSTICS

Warning: octal constant %s (decimal value: %s) used

Under use Leading::Zeros -warning you used an octal constant. It was left as an octal value, but this is the warning you asked for.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

Leading::Zeros requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

None.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-leading-zeros@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

Damian Conway <DCONWAY@cpan.org>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2005, Damian Conway <DCONWAY@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

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