S02:3185-3280 does a nice job of explaining what can and cannot be done with the radix syntax (i.e. :2<1010> etc). I'm left with two questions, however:
* If :2<1010> is the way to way to "interpret" a string as a number in base two, giving the number 10 -- what's the way to go in the other direction? * What's the way to interpret a number of some *parameterized* base $r ? The syntax :$r<123> is legal, but doesn't have anything to do with base conversion. Both of these concerns have come up in the context of trying to solve practical problems in Perl 6. The radix conversion syntax is nice, but it feels like something is missing in the above two areas. Maybe a generalized builtin or two? // Carl
