On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 12:24 AM, Dave Storrs wrote:
Does this mean that you can't use _ in numbers if the radix is higher than 16? (For example, in base 20, the letters A-J should be considered to be digits...can you put underscores between them?)
No, that should be fine... just like in hex, a-f are fine.
Also, on this subject...what happens if I want to use "letter notation" in a base higher than 36?We should talk about this. My original proposal was to do this:
(Case 1) base 2-10: use 0..9
(Case 2) base 11-36: use (0..9, a..z), but allow A..Z such that
0x00ff == 0x00FF
.... which seems necessary, IMHO.
(Case 3) base 37-62: use (0..9,a..z,A..Z), such that
60:ff != 60:FF
.... this is obviously inconsistent w/ Case (2), but is darn useful sometimes.
MikeL
