Re: RFC 143 (v2) Case ignoring eq and cmp operators

[Tom Christiansen]

This RFC still has silly language that discounts what
has been said before.  

1) It calls
uc($a) eq uc($b)
"ugly", despite their being completely intuitive and legible
to even the uninitiated.

2) It then proposes "eq/i" without the least blush, despite
   how incredibly ugly and non-intuitive and, if I may,
   syntactically perverse such a notion is.

--tom

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Re: RFC 143 (v2) Case ignoring eq and cmp operators

[Markus Peter]

"David L. Nicol" wrote:
 
  Perl currently only has Ceq and Ccmp operators which work case-sensitively.
  It would be a useful addition to add case-insensitive equivalents.
 
 As I recall, the consensus the last time this came up was that Ccmpi and
 Ceqi would be perfect examples w/in a RFC proposing a way to declare
 a function to take it's arguments in infix instead of prefix manner.

Well - it only came to the list again as I retired the RFC as most
people
thought this was not important enough :-)

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Re: RFC 143 (v2) Case ignoring eq and cmp operators

[David L. Nicol]

 Perl currently only has Ceq and Ccmp operators which work case-sensitively.
 It would be a useful addition to add case-insensitive equivalents.


As I recall, the consensus the last time this came up was that Ccmpi and
Ceqi would be perfect examples w/in a RFC proposing a way to declare
a function to take it's arguments in infix instead of prefix manner.


sub cmpi($cmpi$){   # or something like this
uc(shift) cmp uc(shift)
}


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