Fwd: BigInteger.ToString(int radix)

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From: Peter Bacon D. [email protected]
Date: 17 Nov 2007 21:43
Subject: BigInteger.ToString(int radix)
To: [email protected]

Hi, Just a quick question.

When BigInteger converts a string in a specific base, the letters it
outputs
are upper case. In MRI the letters are in lower case. Is there a
specific
reason for them to be in uppercase in BigInteger - for instance does
IronPython use uppercase?

Would it be acceptable to change the

    private static void AppendRadix(uint rem, uint radix, char[]

tmp,
StringBuilder buf, bool leadingZeros) {

        const string symbols =

“0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ”;

to

    private static void AppendRadix(uint rem, uint radix, char[]

tmp,
StringBuilder buf, bool leadingZeros) {

        const string symbols =

“0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz”;

Alternatively, the down casing could be done in the Bignum.to_s(radix)
method but this seems wasteful.

Pete