On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 21:32 -0700, David Wheeler wrote: > On Apr 14, 2005, at 7:06 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > > So, <[a.z]> matches "a", ".", and "z", > > while <[a..z]> matches characters "a" through "z" inclusive. > > I was going to say that that was inconsistent, but since you never need > to repeat a letter in a character class, well, I guess it isn't. But > the first person to write <[a...]> gets what's comin' to 'em.
A silly question: is there a canonical character set from which we extract these ranges? Are we hard-coding Unicode here, or is there some way for the user to specify the character set for ranges?
