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Re: [std-proposals] D4039R0 Sequential hexadecimal digits

From: Halalaluyafail3 <luigighiron_at_[hidden]>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:28:08 -0500
On Sat, Feb 28, 2026 at 3:04 PM Jan Schultke <janschultke_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> The wording in your draft could be misinterpreted to mean that 0123456789ABCDEFabcdef is a single contiguous range.
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> The wording says "The code unit values of characters in the ranges ...". Emphasis on "ranges" being plural.
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> How can someone interpret it to mean that the range (singular) 0123456789ABCDEFabcdef is contiguous?

It could be read as referring to all three ranges collectively, and then saying
all characters in all of those three ranges need to be contiguous and in the
order of their assigned Unicode code points. I think that adding "each" to the
text before "contiguous" would help clarify it.

Received on 2026-02-28 20:31:37