hi again,
Marc Lavallée wrote: ...
"spell", probably because its name is more metaphoric than descriptive; there's so many externals out there that I think we should avoid confusing users with non-descriptive names.
not me to blame, perhaps... (otoh, milk has been spilled for some time already)
It's not easy to work with ascii codes; "ascii2any" will rebuild floats, symbols and lists from ascii codes streams, in order to facilitate parsing with a mix of route, sel and similar objects.
which is what [sprintf %c%c...] does (bit clumsy, for sure)
Krzysztof