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Comment by me_again

5 years ago

I had a function which only failed at 8 or 9 minutes past the hour.

It parsed a string containing the timestamp and "08" or "09" was interpreted as an invalid octal number. Argh.

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mankeysee  5 years ago

The beauty of loose dynamic typing

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