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From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>,
	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: New library num-base-converters
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 18:49:45 +0900 (JST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1708151843560.21357@calancha-pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvbmnhjmi1.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org>



On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> +(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.
It's better API than not having API at all; it provides me the flexibility
to handle input as '0xff', '#xff' or 'ff'.  Not that bad.

> All one needs is basically to add a `base` arg to number-to-string
> (there's already one for string-to-number).
Then we are again limited to 2 < b < 16 bases.  In the old thread
the OP asking for this feature wanted to use base 36.
The presented lib can handle 2 <= b <= 36.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-15  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-14 17:26 New library num-base-converters Tino Calancha
2017-08-14 17:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-08-15  2:11   ` raman
2017-08-15  2:50     ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-15  5:25       ` Drew Adams
2017-08-15  6:35         ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-15  7:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-15  9:49   ` Tino Calancha [this message]
2017-08-15 15:24     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-15 13:40   ` Ted Zlatanov

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