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List:       perl6-language
Subject:    Re: Pair notation for number radix
From:       David Green <david.green () telus ! net>
Date:       2007-10-07 21:01:06
Message-ID: a06230901c32ef73f370f () [172 ! 27 ! 1 ! 7]
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On 10/6/07, brian d foy wrote:
>That looks like it might mean that these are corresponding forms:
>    8 => 377    :8<377>    :8(377)
>
>Now, if I can do that, what happens to the pair form in a hash composer
>when I want the key of '8' and the value of :10<377>?

What happened to the suggestion of using ` to designate units?  Bases 
are a kind of unit (sort of -- counting the number of 10's or 2's or 
16's), so if the colon-form is ambiguous, perhaps it could be 
20`16==32`10?



-David
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