[racket-dev] Character classification

I would say your function would be better named is-digit? and that the
char-numeric? is exactly what it is intended to be with respect to
Unicode characters, which is what a Racket character represents.

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Pierpaolo Bernardi <olopierpa at gmail.com> wrote:
> The non-cooperation between char-numeric? and string->number is very annoying.
>
> I had to resort to:
>
> (define (my-char-numeric? c)
>   (char<=? #\0 c #\9))
>
> Maybe I am missing a function similar to my-char-numeric? somewhere in
> the Racket docs?
>
> FWIW, my humble opinion is that char-numeric? should be defined as the
> my- version above. The Unicode category, if that's what one wants, can
> be accessed with char-general-category.
>
> Cheers
> P.
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