Re: More character matching bits

[Bryan C . Warnock]

On Tuesday 12 June 2001 11:06 pm, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > I. Make ranges work on Unicode code-points (if they don't already).
>
> Urrrr, yes, they do, if you by code-point ranges mean \x{...}-\x{...}
> but in general I would like to discourage the use of ranges.  What do
> you think [a-\N{KATAKANA LETTER KI}] should mean?  I think it should
> mean a compile time error.  People misuse ranges for classes.  Ranges
> also imply some collation, which is, as discussed, really bad.

Yes, ranges are bad, but they're occasionally useful.

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Bryan C. Warnock
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