Maybe you're used to \d meaning <[ 0 .. 9 ]> cause this is what you've always been exposed to, but why should this be the only case allowed? Why should a general-purpose programming language enforce a limitation like that, when it doesn't have to?
The world's a big place with lots of languages, and Raku has been designed to also make it easier to handle issues around internationalization and localization without jumping through crazy hoops... This is a good thing!
So if you due to some cultural (or other) limitation fail to imagine more than a single type of numeric inputs, then maybe you'd want to look for that "bug" somewhere closer to home? Just askin'...
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\daccepting non-arabic numerals a bug?Maybe you're used to
\dmeaning<[ 0 .. 9 ]>cause this is what you've always been exposed to, but why should this be the only case allowed? Why should a general-purpose programming language enforce a limitation like that, when it doesn't have to?The world's a big place with lots of languages, and Raku has been designed to also make it easier to handle issues around internationalization and localization without jumping through crazy hoops... This is a good thing!
So if you due to some cultural (or other) limitation fail to imagine more than a single type of numeric inputs, then maybe you'd want to look for that "bug" somewhere closer to home? Just askin'...