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From: Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Go
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:27:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D67AC32CFE1076880E2CDDD5@[192.168.1.2]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ba6e8a9a350cde0750da5e233feac13@9netics.com>

> arabic numeral 9 is very close: ۹

Puny pedantry: that's a(n) Hindi/Indic numeral. 9 is already an "Arabic 
numeral."

If playing on numerals is allowed why shouldn't they call it IXgo or even 
Kyuugo?


--On Tuesday, November 10, 2009 22:47 -0800 Skip Tavakkolian 
<9nut@9netics.com> wrote:

>> Another thorny
>> issue is what to name the package, since you can't start a
>> package name with a digit.
>
> arabic numeral 9 is very close: ۹
>
>







  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-11 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-11  6:00 Russ Cox
2009-11-11  6:33 ` Anant Narayanan
2009-11-11  6:47 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-11-11 11:27   ` Eris Discordia [this message]
     [not found]   ` <D67AC32CFE1076880E2CDDD5@192.168.1.2>
2009-11-11 16:25     ` John Waters
2009-11-11 17:23       ` roger peppe
2009-11-11  7:25 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-11-11 17:23   ` Russ Cox
2009-11-12  5:08     ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-11-12  5:25       ` Russ Cox
2009-11-12  5:46         ` Jeff Sickel
2009-11-12  6:39           ` Russ Cox
2009-11-12 16:37             ` Michaelian Ennis
2009-11-12 17:09 ` AngryDude
2009-11-12  4:31 Nick LaForge
2009-11-12  5:27 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-11-12 15:28   ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-11-12 20:51   ` Nick LaForge
     [not found] <<9ab217670911120728q137ac2c1j4f11d9a1d8b2ded5@mail.gmail.com>
2009-11-12 16:37 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-12 16:59   ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-11-12 18:49   ` Roman Shaposhnik
     [not found] <<9ab217670911120859u25b8f6f0m57cad5c126d75d65@mail.gmail.com>
2009-11-12 17:13 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-12 17:29   ` LiteStar numnums
2009-11-12 18:40   ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan

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