Proposal: Make digitToInt and intToDigit work up to base 36

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Twan van Laarhoven <twanvl at gmail.com>wrote:

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> I propose to change the functions digitToInt and intToDigit in Data.Char
> [...]
>

This seems like a very strange change to want to make.

It already surprised me that digitToInt accepted hex digits; having it
accept digits in number bases that nobody uses seems like even less
desirable behaviour.

Quite strongly against this.
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