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Timothy Willard

Fri Jun 28, 2013 10:04 pm


Quick question: What is # used for?

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I can't find it anywhere in the Turing reference (not saying it isn't there, just saying I don't know where to look for it). I know it is used in Turing for something, but I don't know what.
Can anyone help out here?


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Tony

Fri Jun 28, 2013 10:06 pm


RE:Quick question: What is # used for?

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example?


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Dreadnought

Fri Jun 28, 2013 10:17 pm


Re: Quick question: What is # used for?

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[tdoc]cheat[/tdoc]


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Timothy Willard

Sat Jun 29, 2013 7:41 pm


Re: Quick question: What is # used for?

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The location I found it was in this link:http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=31463.
I do realize that in this situation is sets a base for the integers, but later on down the topic it seems to translate any variable into its hexadecimal representation. I originally knew nothing about it, but I did some research (and testing) after posting this topic so I now have a vague idea about #. I am still curious as to is limits, and when specifically I can use it (for example, is there anyway to get put to display in base 16? When I type put #"a" I get Turing's keycode for a, 97, but that is in base 10.) I only know what # does vaguely, and I am looking for more specific information.


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Dreadnought

Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:12 pm


Re: Quick question: What is # used for?

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The location I found it was in this link:
OMG, someone was trying to learn from my code! I'm not sure if I should be honoured or ashamed (I did some messy stuff in that post).

As I posted earlier, # is a type  is there anyway to get put to display in base 16? 

Look up [tdoc]intstr[/tdoc] and/or [tdoc]natstr[/tdoc].