[Issue 9558] 0b and 0x prefixes for std.string.isNumeric

[via Digitalmars-d-bugs]

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9558

bearophile_hugs at eml.cc changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |INVALID

--- Comment #2 from bearophile_hugs at eml.cc ---
(In reply to hsteoh from comment #1)
> I'm not sure about this. The '0x', '0b', etc., prefixes are syntax defined
> by programming languages, whereas isNumeric is intended to check user input.
> Presumably, most users wouldn't know what 0x, 0b, etc., are, and may be
> surprised to learn that what they consider as invalid input (e.g. 0b10) is
> actually accepted by the program, with results that are unexpected to them.
> 
> Parsing programming language literals should not be conflated with parsing
> user input.

OK, I close this down.

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