Re: Lua 5.1.1 has been frozen

["Joseph Stewart" <joseph.stewart@...>]

The base-one converter in my code is just a hack that counts the
number of numeric digits following the '#'... as I said, it's not very
useful and it is handled differently than the others...

On 6/17/06, Roger Ivie <rivie@ridgenet.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Joseph Stewart wrote:
> > 2#1001 gets converted into 9 and
> > 16#ff gets converted to 255
> > 1#111 gets converted to 3 (okay, base one isn't that useful)
> >
> > This would make some of my code much easier to read.
>
> Umm... given that the largest digit in a given radix is one less than
> the radix, should that be 1#000 gets converted to 0? 1 wouldn't be a
> valid digit in base 1 just as 2 is not a valid digit in base 2.
>
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> roger ivie
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