As an individual who rarely deals with "C" or "C++" I can not comment in that regard.Consider the target audience. I believe the suggested syntax would be more intuitive to a "Basic" programmer.
....however and old dog can learn new tricks. Ref: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdlib/strtol/ It does seem like the strol() function is rather limited regards the notational convention. Perhaps mirroring the strol() function and then use it to implement the set of Hex$(), Dec$, Oct$(), Bin$() functions (noting that Hex$() is already implemented). On 12/01/2014 02:29 PM, Tobias Boege wrote: > On Mon, 01 Dec 2014, Lewis Balentine wrote: >> >> Octal is normally not needed with Gambas. Do you have any use of >> that? << >> >> Neither is "binary" best I can tell. It is still convenient to have >> these tools available. One may not always be dealing with numbers >> originating in Gambas or output targeting Gambas. >> >> Hex$(), Dec$(), Oct$(), Bin$() >> > Why not just mirror strtol() from the C library to Gambas then? It does > these things for all bases from 2 to 36. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
