On Jul 2, 9:44 pm, Tom Faulhaber <tomfaulha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Parth,
>
> It is on the agenda to support this for pprint, but I don't know
> exactly when.
>
Thanks Tom.
I look forward to this addition to the wonderful pprint function :)
Regards,
Parth
> In the meantime, arbitrary bases *are* supported in the common lisp
> compatible format function (cl-format) which is also part of
> clojure.contrib.pprint.
>
> The interesting directives are ~X, ~B, and ~bR, where b is the base of
> interest. For example,
>
> (cl-format nil "~X" 256) => "100"
>
> (cl-format nil "~12r" 256) => "194"
>
> (cl-format true "~{~X ~}~%" [2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256])
>
> prints to *out*:
>
> 2 4 8 10 20 40 80 100
>
> For all the dirt on using radix, look at the Common Lisp
> Hyperspec:http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/22_cb.htm
>
> More info about the clojure implementation of format
> here:http://code.google.com/p/clojure-contrib/wiki/CommonLispFormat(a
> little out of date and about to be moved).
>
> HTH,
>
> Tom
> On Jul 2, 1:51 am, Parth Malwankar <parth.malwan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I frequently deal with hex and binary numbers.
> > As of now when I need to view a list of numbers
> > I just map a little hex function to it to translate it
> > into a list of hex strings at the repl.
>
> > Having something like *print-base* / *print-radix* [1] may be
> > valuable in such a scenario
>
> > Or maybe an enhanced pprint? Not sure if pprint already provides
> > such an option or if its planned.
>
> > I would appreciate any comments or ideas if someone
> > is doing something similar.
>
> > Thanks.
> > Parth
> > [1]http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw50/CLHS/Body/v_pr_bas.htm
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