Rather than going to the horrible effort </irony> of looking up to see if Clojure had support for binary notation, I had a Clojure prompt so I just tried it and got semi-surprising results:
user=> #b010001 java.lang.Exception: No dispatch macro for: b 4097 I'm not surprised that Clojure complains of not knowing what manner of macro #b is but I was impressed (?) that it still yielded the correct value. Somewhere, deep in Clojure's little heart, it wants to do other bases. So, here's a request -- can we get macro dispatch for other base numbers? The CL notation is reasonable, already known and quite readable. Besides, Clojure tells me it /really/ /wants/ to... ;-) -Aaron On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 9:19 AM, David Sletten <da...@bosatsu.net> wrote: > > > On Mar 13, 2009, at 3:07 AM, Michael Wood wrote: >> >> This is pretty standard behaviour. >> >> On the other hand, it's not universal. >> >> sbcl: >> >> * 07 >> >> 7 >> * 08 >> >> 8 >> > > Common Lisp uses a separate syntax for binary/octal/hex literals. Legal: > #b1011, #o377, #xDEADBEEF, #36rZZZ (Base 36 anyone?) > Illegal: > #b2, #o8, #xQUICKSAND > > (Of course, #36rCLOJURE => 27432414842 :-) ) > > Aloha, > David Sletten > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
