Scheme language standardization process
Alex Shinn scripsit: > At my work we recently had a case of an application > written for English which detected numbers in text > by looking for ASCII '0'..'9'. It turns out that we probably > want this to apply to all digits in all scripts. That would > include the standard ideographic numbers as well as > the old accounting numbers (壱 U+58F1, etc.), but > probably not with a Unihan numeric value of kOtherNumeric > (as with 幺). So a middle ground between (1) and (3) > may be desirable. My general sense is that handling non-decimal digits is overkill. However, in order to handle decimal digits effectively, we'd need a function to get the numeric value of a digit. -- John Cowan cowan@x http://ccil.org/~cowan It's the old, old story. Droid meets droid. Droid becomes chameleon. Droid loses chameleon, chameleon becomes blob, droid gets blob back again. It's a classic tale. --Kryten, Red Dwarf _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list Scheme-reports@x http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports