From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New library num-base-converters Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 03:55:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502783793 4830 195.159.176.226 (15 Aug 2017 07:56:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 07:56:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 15 09:56:30 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dhWi5-0000ev-LW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:56:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44795 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhWiB-00085n-VK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 03:56:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41210) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhWhK-00084t-PS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 03:55:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhWhI-0002yM-86 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 03:55:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=39511 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhWhI-0002vM-1d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 03:55:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dhWh9-0005v8-0B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:55:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:o+MWwlM+CxZ/6NScmxM0kzyBSLU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:217560 Archived-At: > +(defun nbc-number-base-converter (num base-in base-out) > + "Translate NUM, a string representing an integer, to a different base. > +BASE-IN, an integer, is the basis of the input NUM. > +BASE-OUT, an integer, is the basis to display NUM." Having a string as both input and output is a bad API, I think. All one needs is basically to add a `base` arg to number-to-string (there's already one for string-to-number). Stefan