> On Dec 27, 2016, at 1:57 PM, Robby Findler <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> The main thing I worry about is that there are standard conventions
> that we're missing from other language families. Would someone mind
> investigating a few other, popular languages


FWIW Racket's own `~r` function already accepts radixes (radices? radishes?) up 
to 36.

Personally I'm a fan of base 62 (used in short-URL generators, such as that 
employed by beautifulracket.com <http://beautifulracket.com/>).


[1] 
https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/strings.html?q=~x#%28def._%28%28lib._racket%2Fformat..rkt%29._~7er%29%29
 
<https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/strings.html?q=~x#(def._((lib._racket/format..rkt)._~7er))>



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