* Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-15 02:25]: > So, I'm wondering what happens in the string-to-number case if > there happen to be characters within the angles that are not > valid digits for the given radix. > > A similar question holds for calling radix converters as > functions
Since the radix specifier/function feels is followed by some variety of circumfix, it feels like an assertion that everything within brackets is a single entity – unlike something undelimited like `0b010ax`, say. So I’d expect it to be like however it is that `say +'oops'` behaves, which is probably to say `0`. Although it would be useful if this were an interesting kind of 0 that knows it came from a parse error (and maybe even which radix was asserted). Larry? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
