I couldn't find anything on the http://clojure.org/reader page, but someone had just posted an example of notation for alternative bases.
It looks like you just enter <BASE>r<NUMBER> user=> 2r1000 8 user=> 3r300 java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "300" user=> 3r200 18 Paul On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Aaron Brooks <aa...@brooks1.net> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
