On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:56:15 -0500, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I remember using a langauge (Icon?) in which arbitrary bases up to 36 > could be used with numeric literals. IIRC, the literals had to begin > with the base in decimnal, folowed by a "b" followed by the digits of > the value using a through z for digits from ten to thirty-five. So > gunk = 36b8H6Z9A0X > would have been valid. Lisp also allows for literals in bases from 2 through 36. Lisp also allows programs to change the default (away from decimal), so that an "identifier" like aa is read by the parser as a numeric constant with the decimal value of 170. Obviously, this has to be used with care, but makes reading external data files written in strange bases very easy. > nothing-new-under-the-sun-ly y'rs - steve every-language-wants-to-be-lisp-ly y'rs, Dan -- Dan Sommers <http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/> Never play leapfrog with a unicorn. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
