Serhiy Storchaka writes:
> I agree. But if there is a special part of the Unicode standard for
> Pattern White Spaces which includes non-ASCII characters, perhaps there
> is a need in them. I asked for the case if Python developers with very
> different cultures have need in additional whitespaces in regular
> expressions, but I don't know. Seems nobody has claimed their need.
I doubt that Japanese would want it. I do use \N{IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE} a
bit as a *target* of regular expressions, but I would never want it as
non-syntactic in re.VERBOSE. (Of course, I'm not a native Japanese, but
I have never heard a Japanese developer wish for use of that character
in any programming language, outside of literal strings.)
> In particularly I don't know how helpful would be supporting
> right-to-left and left-to-right marks in verbose regular expressions
That's a good question. Interpretation and display of R2L in
programming constructs came up briefly in the discussions about BIDI
on the emacs-devel list. I'll ask Eli Zaretskii, who implemented it
for Emacs.
Steve
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