HTTP/1.1 -1 Read error in cache disk data: SuccessContent-Type: text/tab-separated-values; charset="utf-8" Last-Modified: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 06:44:11 GMT Content-length: 1141 Connection: Close Proxy-Connection: Close X-Cache: HIT from web1.osuosl.org Server: ProxyTrack 0.5 (HTTrack 3.49.2) 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 s=1, Tests=2, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.01 usr 0.0