string.atoi and string.atol broken?

[Mike Moum]

Dennis Benzinger wrote:
> Just out of curiosty:
> What did you think what atoi does?
> I don't understand how you came to expect that atoi('4',3)
> should result in 11.
> 
> 
> Bye,
> Dennis

Mea culpa. For some strange reason, I had it in my mind that atoi would 
take a base ten number as a string and convert it to the correct 
representation in the base of the second argument. In other words, 
atoi('4',3) should take 4 in base 10 and convert it to base 3, resulting 
in 11. Exactly backwords, as atoi('11',3) = 4, that is, 11 base 3 = 4 
base 10.

Thanks to all for setting me straight.

Mike