This is a little off-topic. Can anyone tell me why we support numerals in other alphabets but apparently not Greek? On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> wrote:
On 12 July 2013 16:14, Gerald Britton <gerald.britton@gmail.com> wrote:
"Just because."
so, maybe we should have the interpreter spit out ∞ instead?
I don't know whether this was a joke, but just as int("߅") spits out 5 and not ߅, there is no reason that float("inf") should split out anything other than "inf".
I get that we special case infinity. Its an IEEE thing. I can sure the next request coming: The various constants represented by unicode characters.
I don't see how one leads to the next. None thinks that that's a good idea. This is a *very* restricted change that fits with what we have already done.
I don't get the hostility to it. I do get the objections that this isn't needed or that float() has a more restricted scope but this overt dislike to this extent surprises me. This is *minor* extension of the leniency there already is. I'm approximately neutral on the issue, but I'm definitely not as negative as a lot of the reviews it's getting.
-- Gerald Britton -- Gerald Britton
On 12 July 2013 17:06, Gerald Britton <gerald.britton@gmail.com> wrote:
This is a little off-topic. Can anyone tell me why we support numerals in other alphabets but apparently not Greek?
Greek *letters* are not *digits*. They are commonly associated with digits and other numbers, but are not themselves digits or numbers. Also, please don't top post.
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