It is poor practice to have a load file depend on ibase being anything but
9+1 (it is *always *10 :-) ).
Sure, you can imagine situations where some other ibase is more convenient.
But it still strikes me as poor practice to depend on it being non-decimal
without explicitly setting it at the top of the loadfile. So I would be
OK with ibase always being bound (not set) to 9+1 by 'load'.
-s
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> ... at the moment, the meaning of the code you write is
> changed by the value of ibase when your code is loaded. What I intended
> to ask was whether there was any situation where I wanted:
>
> ibase: 10;
> load(foo);
>
> and
>
> ibase: 16;
> load(foo);
>
> To have different effects.
>
> Rupert
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