Re: [PATCH] Treat :tangle-mode as an octal value not integer

[Gyro Funch]

On 2021-09-29 10:22 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 09:52:23AM +0200, dkrm wrote:
> > Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy@cowgar.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > > Are you suggesting this currently works or that the patch should be
> > > changed to make that work? A quick try on my local system (pre-patch),
> > > I receive the error:
> > >
> > >    Wrong type argument: fixnump, "#o660"
> >
> > You have to use the `identity` function for it to works: :tangle-mode (identity 
> > #o660)
>
> Not the original poster, but I'd understand if they think
> this is "too roundabout" to just express a file mode.
>
> I think #o would have been acceptable, but changing that
> now might break a lot of stuff out there (every param
> beginning with `#o'?
>
> OTOH, adding special rules for params seems at least as
> dangerous.
>
> Are there better ideas?
>
> Cheers
>   - t

I don't know if it would ever be ambiguous, but could :tangle-mode have 
the ability to infer if it were integer- or octal-format based on 
checking against 'reasonable' permission settings in octal notation?

Kind regards,
gyro