Numeric supports base 8, 10, 16 but not 2 -- why?

[Emily Pillmore]

+1

On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 1:10 PM, chessai < chessai1996 at gmail.com > wrote:

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> +1
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> On Sun, Dec 6, 2020, 12:07 Oleg Grenrus < oleg. grenrus@ iki. fi (
> oleg.grenrus at iki.fi ) > wrote:
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>> +1
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>> On 6.12.2020 20.04, David Feuer wrote:
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>>> Agreed!
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>>> On Sun, Dec 6, 2020, 1:03 PM Artem Pelenitsyn < a. pelenitsyn@ gmail. com (
>>> a.pelenitsyn at gmail.com ) > wrote:
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>>>> Dear Libraries,
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>>>> 
>>>> I noticed the Numeric module has special-cased functions to read and show
>>>> integral types in bases 8, 10, 16 but not for base 2. There are also
>>>> generic-over-base versions, so an interested client can implement the
>>>> special case for base 2 themselves with little hassle. Still, I think base
>>>> 2 is common enough that we could support it along with base 8, 10, 16 out
>>>> of the box.
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>>>> What do you think? I'm happy to submit a merge request if you concur.
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>>>> 
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Artem Pelenitsyn
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