[Python-Dev] Numeric alignment issue with PEP 3101

[Lie Ryan]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> I concur.  Numbers are naturally right aligned.
> 
> 

Isn't numbers are "naturally right aligned" because of the Big Endian 
notations that most mathematicians currently use. Had we been using 
Little Endian notation, numbers would be naturally left-aligned, 
wouldn't they?

And I sort of disagree with saying it's naturally left- or right- 
aligned; as numbers are naturally (decimal) dot-aligned (if you use dot 
to separate the whole and fractional part of your number).