id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	lang	patch	platform
1674	Strange string (non)numification	pmichaud		"From an observation by patrickas on #perl6:

{{{
pmichaud@orange:~/parrot/trunk$ cat ../x.pir
.sub main
    $S0 = ""6foo""
    $N0 = $S0
    print $S0
    print "" = ""
    say $N0

    $S0 = ""16foo""
    $N0 = $S0
    print $S0
    print "" = ""
    say $N0
.end

pmichaud@orange:~/parrot/trunk$ ./parrot ../x.pir 
6foo = 0
16foo = 16
pmichaud@orange:~/parrot/trunk$ 
}}}

This has apparently been around for a long time -- since at least Parrot 1.4.0.  It was working fine in Parrot 1.0.0, though:

{{{
pmichaud@orange:~/parrot/RELEASE_1_0_0$ cat ../x.pir
.sub main
    $S0 = ""6foo""
    $N0 = $S0
    print $S0
    print "" = ""
    say $N0

    $S0 = ""16foo""
    $N0 = $S0
    print $S0
    print "" = ""
    say $N0
.end

pmichaud@orange:~/parrot/RELEASE_1_0_0$ ./parrot ../x.pir
6foo = 6
16foo = 16
pmichaud@orange:~/parrot/RELEASE_1_0_0$ 
}}}
"	bug	closed	normal		none	2.4.0	medium	fixed