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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!xmission!nnrp.xmission!.POSTED.shell.xmission.com!not-for-mail From: gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl,comp.unix.shell,comp.editors Subject: The "leading zero means octal" thing... Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 22:14:19 -0000 (UTC) Organization: The official candy of the new Millennium Message-ID: Injection-Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 22:14:19 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.xmission.com; posting-host="shell.xmission.com:166.70.8.4"; logging-data="2717443"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@xmission.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) Bytes: 2247 Lines: 28 First of all, yes, I know this is all standardized and it is based on legacy C conventions and it can't be changed and so on and so forth. But if not a bug, it is certainly a misfeature. I am referring, of course, to the convention that a number with a leading zero is interpreted as octal. I can't count the number of times I've been bitten by this - in various languages/environments all across the Unix ecosystem. Note the choice of newsgroups above - I have been affected by this in each of these environments - most recently in Tcl (Expect) and in the VIM editor. In fact, the really obnoxious part about it is that it means a number string like "08" is invalid, because 8 is not a valid digit in octal. I wish there was a global way to turn this off - some option to set that says "Don't do that!". I realize, of course, that it has to be on by default, but it should be possible to turn it off. Incidentally, and this was my motivation for posting this rant, I hit this in VIM - where if the cursor is sitting on the zero in a string like Foo07 and you hit ^A, it changes it to - are you ready? - not Foo08, but Foo010. Totally weird and unexpected. -- Just like Donald Trump today, Jesus Christ had a Messiah complex. And, in fact, the similarities between the two figures are quite striking. For example, both have a ragtag band of followers, whose faith cannot be shaken.