Description of long(): A string parameter is no longer required to be

                        *decimal*.

This closes SF bug #127273.

Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex

@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ the interpreter.
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{long}{x\optional{, radix}}
   Convert a string or number to a long integer.  If the argument is a
-  string, it must contain a possibly signed decimal number of
+  string, it must contain a possibly signed number of
   arbitrary size, possibly embedded in whitespace;
   this behaves identical to \code{string.atol(\var{x})}.  The
   \var{radix} argument is interpreted in the same way as for