Re: Motion 46 -- Vincent's objections
Regarding interval notation in right-to-left locales,
Vincent Lefèvre replied to me:
> > I know that numeric literals are witten in the same order as for
> > left-to-right scripts, but what about the order of bounds in the
> > pair that denotes an interval? Is the low bound the first or the
> > leftmost element?
>
> The first, but I would say that the full interval literal would be
> written left-to-right.
Huh? I meant "first" in the direction of the script; if the whole
interval is written left-to-right, then the upper bound would be
first when reading right-to-left. Or did Vincent imply that the
entire interval literal be considered a single numeric entity?
> Otherwise the first character would be "]", not "[".
Right -- the outermost character. That's the generic way
of describing bracketing constructs. The "otherwise" is
not justified as this would be the case regardless of the
ordering of upper vs lower bound.
> One may also wonder a BOM would be accepted as the first character...
Bill Of Materials???
Michel.
---Sent: 2013-07-20 05:22:25 UTC