| Subject: | The behaviour of oct in bigint is inconsistent with that of the default oct |
Hello,
I am using perl v5.16.0 and v5.10.1 and the `oct` function with which
bigint replaces the default one requires a leading 0 to interpret its
parameter as an octal number, whereas the default `oct` does not (and
neither do `hex` and `bigint::hex` require a leading 0x).
If there is no prefix, the parameter is interpreted as a decimal number.
It is also inconsistent with Math::BigInt->from_oct, which returns NaN
in Math::BigInt v1.89 and correctly interprets as an octal number in v1.998.
Is that a bug or is there a rationale behind it?