GNU bug report logs - #57090
'guix style' pretty-printer always renders integers as base10

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Christopher Rodriguez <yewscion <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2022 20:52:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Csepp <raingloom <at> riseup.net>
To: Christopher Rodriguez <yewscion <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 57090 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57090: [BUG] Default Notation for chmod in guix style?
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 21:01:15 +0000

Christopher Rodriguez <yewscion <at> gmail.com> writes:

> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
>
> Hello,
>
> I've noticed that, when I explicitly declare absolute permissions in
> octal during a (chmod …) in my package definitions and then run guix
> style, it converts them to decimal instead.
>
> Is this intended? I've gotten feedback and agree that octal (#o755) is
> much clearer to read than decimal (493), simply because I'm used to the
> actual unix chmod tool and its conventions.

Seems to be a Scheme limitation:

```
scheme@(guile-user)> '(#o10)
$1 = (8)
```
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