Jeff wrote:
> I have added 2 new evaluator functions as part of the JXQ1 patch.  These will
> become part of MPE 6.0 too.
>
> decimal(int)   - takes an integer argument and returns the string equivalent.
>                  (could have used this yesterday! :)

and Stan replied:
> Ugh...I'd have preferred ASC (like Debug/iX), or something (?) related to
> some existing programming language!
>
> Or...better yet...   ASCII (###) --> "###"

I'll second that!

> and then expand it usefully:
>    ASCII (n, [, [base] [, [width] [, thousands-separator] ]])

Maybe what Stan really needs are object oriented external libraries of
CI functions ;)  Or is there already an AIF to do this?