(Arne Babenhauserheide)
2015-06-22: add newbase60 example with integer->sxg add newbase60 example with integer->sxg
diff --git a/examples/newbase60.w b/examples/newbase60.w
--- a/examples/newbase60.w
+++ b/examples/newbase60.w
@@ -2,8 +2,39 @@
exec guile -L $(dirname $(dirname $(realpath "$0"))) --language=wisp -e '(@@ (examples newbase60) main)' -s "$0" "$@"
; !#
+;; Encoding and decoding numbers in New Base 60 as defined by Tantek:
+;; http://tantek.pbworks.com/NewBase60
+
+;; Based on the very elegant implementation from kevin marks:
+;; https://github.com/indieweb/newBase60py/blob/master/newbase60.py
+
define-module : examples newbase60
. #:export : main
+ . #:use-module : srfi srfi-1
+
+define base60letters "0123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZ_abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz"
+define base60numbers
+ append
+ map cons (string->list base60letters) : iota : string-length base60letters
+ quote
+ :
+ #\l . 1 ; typo lowercase l to 1
+ #\I . 1 ; typo capital I to 1
+ #\O . 0 ; typo capital O to 0
+
+define : integer->sxg num
+ if : equal? 0 num
+ . "0"
+ let loop
+ : s '()
+ n num
+ if : equal? n 0
+ list->string : reverse s
+ loop
+ cons
+ string-ref base60letters (remainder n 60)
+ . s
+ quotient n 60
define : main args
- display args
+ display : integer->sxg 61