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Mon Mar 10 19:19:02 CET 2014 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-March/133058.html

On 2014-03-10 17:06, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:56 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:04:08 +0100
>> "Stefan Richthofer" <Stefan.Richthofer at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>> > Guido famously hates two digit minor version numbers. :)
>>>
>>> This is no problem either. Simply switch to hexadecimal numbering ;)
>>
>> Or wrap around to negative numbers (a minus sign isn't technically a
>> digit, is it?).
>
> Terrible idea. Would wreak havoc with comparisons. No. Python 3 is all
> about Unicode, so the right way to proceed is 3.8, 3.9, 3.:, 3.;, 3.<,
> 3.=, 3.>, 3.?, 3.@, 3.A.
>
Let's stick to digits. We could move on to Devanagari or Gurmukhi digits.

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