From: Simon Krahnke <overlord@...>
Date: 2008-05-14T17:35:11+09:00
Subject: Re: How to convert character to hexadecimal?

* 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> (03:49) schrieb:

>> Then I ask you again what does have a bearing on that?
>> x = 0xA
>> What kind of number is x?
>
> To add a little to Gennady Bystritsky's answer:
>
> x is not a number--x is a variable.  After the assignment, x refers to 
> an Integer object that was created from the Integer literal 0xA.

And an integer literal is a string representation of an Integer. And
these string representations do have a base.

mfg,                    simon .... l