Re: ? Reasonable to propose stability policy on numeric type = decimal

From: karl williamson (public@khwilliamson.com)
Date: Sat Jul 24 2010 - 19:34:36 CDT

  • Next message: Michael Everson: "Re: ? Reasonable to propose stability policy on numeric type = decimal"

    Michael Everson wrote:
    > On 24 Jul 2010, at 23:00, Bill Poser wrote:
    >
    >> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> wrote:
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    >>> Digits can be scattered randomly about the code space and it wouldn't make any difference.
    >> Having written a library for performing conversions between Unicode strings and numbers, I disagree.
    >
    > You can, but in principle it remains true.
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    >> It may well be that adopting such a policy is not realistic, but there would be advantages to it if were.
    >
    > The current policy does not always have ones at one or eights at eight, and for practical reasons, it would be foolish to try to adopt a policy at odds with common sense and practical code-position assignment.
    >

    the proposal did not ask for ones at one or eights at eight. It asked
    for contiguity. Why is this ad odds with common sense and practical
    code-position assignment?

    > Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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