31 Aug
2009
31 Aug
'09
4:49 a.m.
How would it work for bases beyond 10? OK, so base-16 has a well known encoding, but what about base-100? Base-16 is case insensitive, but would Base-37 be case insensitive?… ISTM that the common encodings of bin, oct, and hex are already covered by built-in functions and for bases beyond that, you have decide what system to use for encoding symbols that are out of range. Do people really need trinary through septary that often? Is there a single, best-practices way of doing base-1013? Feels like YAGNI to me, but I could be wrong. — Carl Johnson