From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New library num-base-converters
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 03:55:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbmnhjmi1.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alpine.DEB.2.20.1708150225001.30658@calancha-pc
> +(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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-15 7:55 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 [this message]
2017-08-15 9:49 ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-15 15:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-15 13:40 ` Ted Zlatanov
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