Terry Reedy wrote: > On 11/30/2010 3:23 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > >> I see no reason not to make a similar promise for numeric literals. I >> see no good reason to allow compatibility full-width Japanese "ASCII" >> numerals or Arabic cursive numerals in "for i in range(...)" for >> example. > > I do not think that anyone, at least not me, has argued for anything > other than 0-9 digits (or 0-f for hex) in literals in program code. The > only issue is whether non-programmer *users* should be able to use their > native digits in applications in response to input prompts.
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