Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "LW" == Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > LW> oct and hex are arguably misnamed, since most functions are named by > LW> what they produce, not by what they take as input. I don't know what > LW> the replacement should be, though. Maybe it's not worth fixing. > > from_oct, from_hex which state what they do? or a more general > from_base( 16, $hex )? and that could be curried into from_hex().
0xFF.dec() $num.dec() $num.hex() $num.base($n) ? I believe that some of these can already be handled by C<.as()>. I would like for this to be addressed. This is one item that has always confused me about Perl 5. -- matt diephouse http://matt.diephouse.com
