Re: String to Num (was Re: Numeric Literals (Summary))

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:57:33AM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
: .... and _I'm_ trying to promote the reuse of the old "oct/hex" 
: functions to do a similar both-way thing, such that:

What's a two-way function supposed to return if you pass it something
that has both a string and a numeric value?  Convert it both directions?

Larry