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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 02:34:57 -0500
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To: Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com>
Subject: Re: New S29 draft up
Cc: Perl6 Language List <perl6-langu...@perl.org>
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From: mdd...@gmail.com (Matt Diephouse)

Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "LW" == Larry Wall <la...@wall.org> writes:
>   LW> oct and hex are arguably misnamed, since most functions are named by
>   LW> what they produce, not by what they take as input.  I don't know what
>   LW> the replacement should be, though.  Maybe it's not worth fixing.
> 
> from_oct, from_hex which state what they do? or a more general
> from_base( 16, $hex )? and that could be curried into from_hex().

  0xFF.dec()
  $num.dec()
  $num.hex()
  $num.base($n)

?

I believe that some of these can already be handled by C<.as()>.

I would like for this to be addressed. This is one item that has
always confused me about Perl 5.

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matt diephouse
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