On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 10:59:08 -0800, masak wrote: > <TimToady> m: say :256["☺".ords] > <camelia> rakudo-moar c5dcdf: OUTPUT«9786» > <TimToady> m: say :256[0x263a] > <camelia> rakudo-moar c5dcdf: OUTPUT«9786» > <TimToady> seems we could use a check there... > <TimToady> m: say :256[256,256] > <camelia> rakudo-moar c5dcdf: OUTPUT«65792» > * masak submits rakudobug
I suspect we should disallow out-of-radix entries for all but the first, since there are uses for allowing the first entry to overflow, such as encoding hours, minutes, and seconds. On the other hand, if we had something to do a reverse polymod, we wouldn't need to use :radix[] for that purpose, and could restrict all the digits on the assumption that it is only to be used for normal homogenous numeric bases.
