On Mar 15, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Aaron Brooks wrote:

>
> Rather than going to the horrible effort </irony> of looking up to see
> if Clojure had support for binary notation, I had a Clojure prompt so
> I just tried it and got semi-surprising results:
>
> user=> #b010001
> java.lang.Exception: No dispatch macro for: b
> 4097
>
> I'm not surprised that Clojure complains of not knowing what manner of
> macro #b is but I was impressed (?) that it still yielded the correct
> value. Somewhere, deep in Clojure's little heart, it wants to do other
> bases.
>

Umm, that's not really the correct value. Clojure gave you octal  
010001 -> 4097 not binary 010001 -> 17

Sorry,
David Sletten


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