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Re:How Did Anyone Do Math in Roman Numerals? by MichaelBurge on Friday July 21, 2017 @11:01AM (#14821060)
I'm not a compiler dev, but it looks fairly new and appears to have many other special Unicode ranges too, including camels and beer mugs???

https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/beec02a6fa69e3ac290b4d...

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Re:How Did Anyone Do Math in Roman Numerals? by zoffix222 on Friday July 21, 2017 @06:23PM (#14824163)
That's just a helper script to generate tables for for .succ/.pred string increment/decrement methods. Nd and No chars as numeric literals were available since first stable release in December 2015
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