Re: Image attribute (yet again)

[Jere <jhb.chat@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 2:02:20 AM UTC-4, J-P. Rosen wrote:
> Le 27/04/2020 à 16:10, Jere a écrit :
> >> This feature requires that if you write a number in a certain base, then
> >> you need to recognize the base when reading. So it's not an error, but a
> >> design decision. Of course, like any design decision, you may agree with
> >> it or not.
> > As I have thought about this more, I don't think I see the need
> > for the "16#" and associated for this functionality to work.  If you
> > are using the reflective Get to the Put, that knows the base.  The
> > text doesn't need to specify it. If you want something more runtime
> > adaptive, then sure, but for pure reflective Get/Put it isn't needed
> > that I can tell.  In the case where a more runtime adaptive strategy
> > is desired, that is where I would have expected the language to want
> 
> Huh? The Get procedure has no parameter for the base, it accepts
> whatever is in the file.
> 
> The design principle is that you are precise on output, and tolerant on
> input. Same idea with 'Image (required to be upper case) and 'Value
> (accepts any case).
> 
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Yeah, I misread the RM as having the base on Get as well.