strtoul etc.

[Gabriel Dos_Reis]

Ryszard Kabatek <rysio@rumcajs.chemie.uni-halle.de> writes:

| Below a sample of the simplest (base == 10) conversion
| from a string to an integer. 
| 
| I think we should decide if we want to go this way.
| I suppose it depends on the answer to the question:
| 
| Does somebody want to implement the necessary functions?

[...]

I should confess that I'd favor the way Nathan is describing. I don't
simply have enough time to volunteer to implement these functions for
the next snapshot. So I'd suggest we go with the current approach
in order to have a basic running library; *but* we should keep
in mind that ths strto* should be replaced as soon as possible.
As soon as I'm done with the numerics, I'll volunteer to implement
the necessary functions.

-- Gaby