Re: math expressions (was: Re: Tail call elimination)

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2020-05-25 at 15:44 -0500, Pete Dietl wrote:
> As for converting between bases, that could always be a separate
> function like `$(convert-base number,radix)` where radix is one of:
> 2, 8, 10, or 16

I agree it should be a separate function.

Perhaps it would be better to consider a more general $(printf ...)
style function, to provide more sophisticated formatting, than to
create something specific just for base conversion.

But this is something to look at some other day; we have more than
enough going on right now.