Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix string->number (bug #1272) by checking early for invalid bases

[John Cowan]

Peter Bex scripsit:

> See #1272 for more info.  I think the best solution is to check the
> argument and barf when a base outside the range 2..36 is passed,
> because what are even supposed to be the digits in higher bases?

Indeed, R5RS and R7RS only require bases 2, 8, 10, and 16 to work.
Everything else is surplusage.

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