Marc Feeley scripsit: > What is the rationale for digit-value ? Its usefullness seems limited. > It could be used to parse decimal numbers and convert them to their > numerical value. However, a more general procedure would be useful > to parse numbers in any base:
Its purpose is to determine for any digit character (not merely the European digits 0-9) what its numeric value is. For example, (digit-value #\x0663) => 3, because ٣ U+0663 is the Arabic-Indic digit 3. Of course, if the implementation does not support this character, that won't work. -- John Cowan [email protected] http://www.ccil.org/~cowan C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux, de rapport nyait pas. --Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit" _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
