On Thursday, 13 October 2022 at 08:30:04 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
On 13/10/2022 9:27 PM, bauss wrote:
This doesn't actually work properly in all languages. It will
probably work in most, but it's not entirely correct.
Ex. Turkish will not work with it properly.
Very interesting article:
http://www.moserware.com/2008/02/does-your-code-pass-turkey-test.html
Yes turkic languages, they require a state machine and quite a
bit of LUTs to work correctly.
You also need to provide a language and it has to operate on
the whole string, not individual characters.
I didn't think it was relevant since Ascii was in the original
post ;)
I think it's relevant when it comes to D since D is arguably a
unicode language, not ascii.
D should strive to be correct, rather than fast.
