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		RodgerTheGreat on Dec 16, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Strangest Language Features I presume that CL standardized on a base as a default, though? Otherwise you have an appropriately recursive problem that every base is "base-10" in that base. edit: (setf read-base (+ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1)) :)

krzysz00 on Dec 16, 2011 [–]

I just went and checked, and the standard gives a default value of "10." for read-base , so decimal by default (I think). It also says:

"Notes:

Altering the input radix can be useful when reading data files in special formats. "

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