I think it better to extend the radix of `string->number` and
`number->string` to 2...36(inclusive) for now, and take more time to
think about bigger ranges.
I'm not sure about a good convention for a bigger radix, like 60.
(number->string 100 60 #:symbols '("01" "02" ... "59") #:separator ":")
(number->string 100 60 #:symbols "0123...9ABC...Zabc...z!\"#$%&/()=...")
Gustavo
By the way, the output of `number->string` for fractions is both
obvious and unexpected
(number->string (/ 1000 3) 8) ;=> "1750/3"
(number->string (/ 1 64) 8) ;=> "1/100"
I think it needs an explicit example in the documentation.
On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Robby Findler
<ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> The main thing I worry about is that there are standard conventions
> that we're missing from other language families. Would someone mind
> investigating a few other, popular languages to see what they do so
> that can be taken into account? And perhaps pointing to the docs or
> showing some example code? (If we don't like what they do, we don't
> have to do it that way, but gratuitous difference seems unwise.)
>
> Robby
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Vincent St-Amour
> <stamo...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> I don't see any reason why not, and it doesn't seem (by the discussion)
>> that anyone is strongly against.
>>
>> Would you be interested in submitting a pull request to extend
>> `string->number`? You'd probably want to extend `number->string` as
>> well, and possibly others.
>>
>> Vincent
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 05:51:06 -0500,
>> Dmitry Igrishin wrote:
>>>
>>> >> Why restricting it to 36?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I guess that the original poster implied 10 digits + 26 Latin letters for
>>> > notation.
>>> True. And this notation is used in standard numeric conversion
>>> functions in C, C++ and Common Lisp. So, I think it's reasonable to
>>> use it in Racket.
>>>
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