Hello. I thought D did not prove the Python facility of being able to handle bases 2 to 36 in string to integer conversion on request (there it is int(num, base = )), but came upon this toImpl overload:
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_conv.html#.toImpl.5 which provides for a radix to be input. There's also a corresponding parse overload. However, as per the text under http://dlang.org/phobos/std_conv.html#.to: "Entry point that dispatches to the appropriate conversion primitive. Client code normally calls to!TargetType(value) (and not some variant of toImpl)." ... I'm not sure why the toImpl and parse functions are even publicly documented. People shouldn't need to know about them. So given that toImpl is supposed to be internal, shouldn't we have a to! function for specifying the base, something like: T to(T, ubyte base) if (isIntegral!T && 2 <= base && base <= 36) -- Shriramana Sharma, Penguin #395953
