[REBOL] Re: code beauty... fiction ?
From: ryanc:iesco-dms at: 10-Oct-2001 14:55
I would not call these beauties, but they are smaller, so less ugliness to look at...
to-short: func [v][to-binary join to-char v / 256 to-char v // 256]
to-byte: func [v][to-binary to-char v // 256]
--Ryan
Hallvard Ystad wrote:
> When I do java programming, I have the types BYTE and SHORT. I haven't found this in
rebol, so I convert integers this way:
>
> short: load rejoin ["#{" pick to-hex some-integer 5
> pick to-hex some-integer 6
> pick to-hex some-integer 7
> pick to-hex some-integer 8
> "}"]
>
> byte: load rejoin ["#{" pick to-hex some-integer 7
> pick to-hex some-integer 8
> "}"]
>
> I don't find this a very sexy way to do it. Has anyone got any suggestions to do it
in a more intuitive way?
>
> ~H
> Praetera censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
>
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