On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:02:02AM -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> Now, it would be nice to have a subroutine that, given a number, could
> output in any arbitrary base. Perhaps Perl6 could have a radix()
> subroutine that returns a string representation thusly:
>
> $base = 2;
> $number = 13;
> print radix($base,$number), "\n"; # outputs 1101
>
> maybe even with an optional padding so that the above example could be
> output as "00001101".
>
Perhaps we're just looking at a new printf() format string - %r?
Specifying radix AND padding AND accuracy might be ugly...
"%${rad}.${pad}.${acc}r"?
J
