From: JZ <usenet@...>
Date: 2005-07-15T23:05:53+09:00
Subject: Re: to_i() bug?

Dnia Fri, 15 Jul 2005 22:10:00 +0900, Paul Brannan napisa�(a):

> The Integer() and Float() methods are available if you want to validate
> your data, but in 1.8.x, Integer() does not take a base as an argument.

I need the base. I used another way.  This is my code I had to prepare:

def bases(n, min=2)
    result = []
    n.split(//).each do |c|
        pos = "0123456789abcdef".index(c)
        min = pos+1 if min <= pos
    end
    min.upto(16)  { |base| result <<  [base, n.to_i(base)] }
    return result
end

p bases('10a')


> It is unfortunate that the interface for these methods is not
> self-documenting.

I really like pythonic docstring idea. Very comfortable and simple way for
adding documentation to classes, methods etc. Is there any equivalent of
http://python.org/peps/ for Ruby?  How Ruby is developed? 

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JZ