From 43cbfbf8213e38ebe643a84f480f54cb8ebefc25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Shahaf Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 00:23:11 +0000 Subject: unposted: Follow-up to 37833: extend description of 37804 in README. --- README | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 197cfb91d..8b8ab5731 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -61,7 +61,9 @@ suppress the range behaviour of the "-". 2) The first argument to 'repeat' is now evaluated as an arithmetic expression. It was always documented to be an arithmetic expression, but until now the decimal integer at the start of the value was used and the -remainder of the value discarded. +remainder of the value discarded. This could lead to different behaviour +if the argument contains non-numeric characters, or if the argument has +leading zeroes and the OCTAL_ZEROES option is set. Incompatibilities between 5.0.8 and 5.2 --------------------------------------- -- cgit 1.4.1