* Jerry James <james(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: I'm pretty sure that we (SXEmacs) can do something along these lines. ,----[ C-h f coerce-number RET ] | `coerce-number' is a built-in function | -- loaded from "/usr/src/sxemacs/sxemacs/src/ent/ent.c" | (coerce-number NUMBER TYPE &optional PRECISION) | | Documentation: | Convert NUMBER to the indicated type, possibly losing information. | See `coerce'. | | TYPE is one of the symbols: | - 'fixnum or 'int to convert to built-in integers | - 'bigz or 'bignum to convert to bigz integers | - 'integer to convert to the most suitable type out of | 'bigz or 'int | | - 'bigq or 'ratio to convert to bigq fractions | - 'rational to convert to the most suitable type out of | 'bigq, 'bigz or 'int | | - 'float to convert to built-in floats | - 'bigf or 'bigfloat to convert to bigf floats | - 'bigfr to convert to bigfr floats | - 'real to convert to the type indicated by | `read-real-as' with a fallback to 'float | | - 'bigg to convert to a Gaussian | - 'bigc to convert to a bigc complex number | | - 'quatern to convert to a Quaternion | | NOTE: Not all of these types may be supported. | | PRECISION is the number of bits of precision to use when converting to | reals; it is ignored otherwise. If nil, the default precision is used. | | Note that some conversions lose information. No error is signaled in such | cases; the information is silently lost. `---- -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: A94B3003>---| | SXEmacs - The only _______ you'll ever need. | | Fill in the blank, yes, it's THAT good! | |------------------------------------&lt;steve(a)sxemacs.org&gt;---| _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta